Leeds Kirkgate Market has welcomed generations of shoppers down the decades. It became the largest indoor market in Europe when it opened in 1857 and through the years has had a tough life with scars to prove it. These photos turn back the focus on life in the market during the 1980s, a time when it was on the rise after a devastating fire in December 1975. Do you remember these stalls and traders? CHANGING LEEDS: The night Kirkgate Market was devastated by fire | 20 photos of Vicar Lane through the years LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
![December 1989 and it was all systems go in the run up to Christmas with 500 stalls offering shoppers a wide range of goods.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE1NzkxNjEw.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
25. Kirkgate Market in the 1980s
December 1989 and it was all systems go in the run up to Christmas with 500 stalls offering shoppers a wide range of goods.
![Share your memories of Kirkgate Market in the 1980s with Andrew Hutchinson via email at: andrew.hutchinson@jpress.co.uk or tweet him - @AndyHutchYPN](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE1NzkxNjEx.jpg?crop=3:2&trim=&width=640)
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