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 take you back to Leeds in 1980, a year which featured demonstrations, new beginnings, huge crowds, and a farewell to a familiar face. READ MORE: Leeds in 1992 | Leeds in 1998 | Leeds in 1999 | Leeds in 2000 LOVE LEEDS LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join the Leeds Retro facebook group
1. Leeds city centre
A view showing the City Art Gallery during the construction of the Henry Moore Sculpture Gallery extension in November 1980. Scaffolding surrounds the premises and various building materials can be seen. The Town Hall is visible in the background. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
2. Meanwood
The end of an era as demolition workmen remove the remains of the ballroom of the Capital in January 1980 . | YPN Photo: YPN
3. Leeds city centre
Firemen tackle a blaze at Waring and Guillow in January 1980. | YPN Photo: YPN
4. Oakwood
A BBC film crew clambered into a skip piled high with waste paper to the amazement of shoppers at Safeways in January 1980. The crew were filming the monthly waste paper collection in the car park for a BBC Horizon documentary. | YPN Photo: YPN
5. Armley
The site of The Hopes on Stanningley Road expose a new view of Gotts Park in January 1980. | YPN Photo: YPN
6. Oakwood
Did you donate to Catch-A-Can appeal? Conservationist Craig Johnson and Special Projects organiser Maggie Gains from the Environmental Health do their share of the sorting at Safeways. | YPN Photo: YPN