These fantastic photos provide plenty of talking points and stand out memories from a year in the life of your Leeds at the dawn of a new decade. The gallery brings into focus life around the city centre and the suburbs during 1970. It was a 12 months which featured a visit to Leeds from singer-songwriter Cliff Richard whose star at the time was rising. He had found fame with Congratulations, a song which had two years earlier earned him the runners up spot as the UK’s entry in the Eurovision Song Contest. This collection of photos include city centre landmarks as well as memories from the suburbs with East Ardsley, Morley, Rodley, Bramley, Halton and Richmond Hill. The photos are a mix from the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Mr K. S. Wheelan and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. READ MORE: Watch - Secrets of Leeds Queens Hotel revealed including hidden tunnel LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
1. Leeds city centre
Cliff Richard taken at Green Shield Stamps on Eastgate in April 1970. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
2. Leeds city centre
Miss BOC Swedish model Ischi Bernell is pictured opening a new welding product centre at the British Oxygen works in January 1970 by cutting a chain with a flame cutter. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
3. Swillington
Primrose Hill Colliery after closure, George Prince, the colliery manager C Shaw and training officer Jack Kielty had a drink with the miners who had worked their last shift. The previous week the pit had broken the record for production. Its closure was marked with barrels of free beer for the miners. Pictured in March 1970. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
4. Woodhouse Moor
A meeting on Woodhouse Moor of striking workers in February 1970. Five thousand clothing factory workers rejected on the offer of immediate negotiations on their claim if they returned to work. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
5. East Ardsley
A notice on the wall of a house in Parker Street in December 1970. The notice is headed 'Housing Acts, 1957-1969' and relates to the Clearance Orders' of 1969. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
6. Woodhouse
Institution Street looking west towards Raglan Road. In the background on the left is the March Institute, built around the turn of the 20th century as the Parish Hall of St. Mark's, a gift of the Misses March. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net