These wonderful photos chart a year in the life of your Leeds at the dawn of a new decade for the city and its residents. They turn back the clock to 1980 and bring into focus a changing face of the city. Stories making the news headlines are featured as well as memories from around the city suburbs with Kirkstall, Horsforth, Scholes, Hunslet, Chapeltown, Headingley, Meanwood, Boston Spa and Woodhouse Moor all featured. The images are a mix from the Yorkshire Evening Post archive, some of which have been digitised for the first time, and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. They also run heritage blog The Secret Library Leeds, which provides a behind the scenes look at the Central Library and highlights from its special collections, including rare books hidden away in the stacks. READ MORE: Lost city centre landmarks - The Leeds Skywalk LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RSETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
1. Leeds city centre
Queens Hotel and City Square in April 1980 taken from the footbridge over Park Row. | YPN Photo: YPN
2. Leeds city centre
Recognise it? Infirmary Street pictured in November 1980. It was the latest change of face to the city, built on to the Victorian Post Office. | YPN Photo: YPN
4. Moortown
Graham Dixon, left, president of Rotaract Club of Leeds is pictured presenting a £700 cheque to Sister Charlotte McNeill, centre, bursar of St Gemma's Hospice in November 1980. The club hoped to raise a total of £1,000 through sponsored events. | YPN Photo: YPN
5. Meanwood
February 1980 and demolition men moved in with the speed of a frenzied samba to tear down the Capitol complex - once a magnet that drew dancing enthusiasts to Leeds from all over Yorkshire. | YPN Photo: YPN
6. Colton in the 1980s
The new access road to Colton where it emerges on the roundabout at Austhorpe junction with Selby Road and the start of the Leeds ring road in October 1980. | YPN Photo: YPN