Your city has undergone some huge changes in the last twenty years. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos to take you back to Leeds in 1999, a year which featured a victory for people power, new beginnings, celebrity visits and fond farewells. READ MORE: Leeds in 1980 | Leeds in 1992 | Leeds in 1993 | Leeds in 1994 | Leeds in 1996 | Leeds in 1998 | Leeds in 2000 | Leeds in 2001 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join the Leeds Retro facebook group

31. Leeds city centre
Actor Martin Hancock, who played Spider in Coronation Street, meets Tara the tarantula at the opening of the Bugs The Monster Creepy Crawl exhibition at the Royal Armouries. | YPN Photo: YPN

32. Moortown
A police car was involved in a crash on the Leeds ring road at the junction with Black Moor Road. | YPN Photo: YPN


34. Otley Chevin
The Potato Room Players took to Otley Chevin to promote the musical The Sound of Music being staged at the City Varieties. Pictured is Janet Howard, who played Maria, and the Von Trapp children. | Mel Hulme Photo: Mel Hulme

35. Leeds city centre
April 1999 and Leeds welcomed a group of Kosovan refugees who had fled their war torn country. | PA Photo: PA

36. Allerton Bywater
This was one of three models of the proposed millennium village. | Justin Lloyd Photo: Justin Lloyd

