First team stars Lee Sharpe, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Nigel Martyn were thrust into the spotlight alongside models on stage during a fashion show in April 1998. A show of a different kind was being premiered at West Yorkshire Playhouse with the life of pools winner Viv Nicholson taking centre stage. Elsewhere traditional horse power returned to the city centre while a Leeds bakery was celebrating its 60th anniversary. This was Leeds in April 1998 - is it a city you remember? READ MORE: 16 iconic YEP front pages from down the decades LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
1. Leeds city centre
Pools winner Viv Nicholson (right) with actress Rosemary Ashe, who was playing her in a West Yorkshire Playhouse production about her life. | Mel Hulme Photo: Mel Hulme
2. Leeds city centre
This notice of byelaws was put up outside Leeds City Art Gallery warning against the use of roller blades and skateboards. | YPN Photo: YPN
3. Leeds city centre
This is traffic warden Judy Mills, based at Millgarth, who used her Honda motorcycle to get around the city. | YPN Photo: YPN
4. Shadwell
This is Randy Blackburn pictured at his home in Leeds with his ten year creation - a scale model of a Fairground Engine. | Charles Knight Photo: Charles Knight
5. Roundhay Park
These two Black Swans had set up home on Waterloo Lake. | Charles Knight Photo: Charles Knight
6. Leeds city centre
The Jubilee 2000 campaign for a debt free start for one billion people in third world countries was depicted by a ( loan ) shark made by Agnes Stewart High School pupils. | Graham Lindley Photo: Graham Lindley