These photos plucked from the YEP archive provide a snapshot of life on Cookridge Street down the decades. It was once home to Cookridge Street Baths and the Town & Country Club and remains home to St Anne's Cathedral and Leeds Civic Theatre CHANGING LEEDS: Dark Arches | Briggate | The Headrow | Boar Lane | Vicar Lane LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
1. January 1967
Traffic lights were being put up at the junction of Cookridge Street and Woodhouse Lane.
2. March 1989
Do you remember these shops on the corner of Cookridge Street and Great George Street?
3. May 1975
This stretch of pavement at the junction of Cookridge Street and The Headrow was extended.
4. 1960s
The entrance to the Cookridge Street Baths which were also known as Oriental and General Baths.
5. 1960s
The demolition site of the Cookridge Street Baths towards the Civic Hall and the Brotherton Wing of Leeds General Infirmary. The steps on the left were the main entrance to the baths.
6. March 1978
Hidden behind this traffic sign on Cookridge Street with the junction of Great George Sttreet were traffic lights that drivers could not see.