This retro photo gallery captures some of the biggest queues around Yorkshire during the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s.
People are seen waiting in line for the Christmas sales, buses and trains, polio vaccinations and big football and cricket matches, among other things.
These nostalgic images show how queuing has always been as much a part of the British psyche as tea, fish and chips, and complaining about the weather.
While our propensity for forming an orderly queue has not changed, many things have.
The lost shops pictured include Debenhams, C&A and the much-missed Lewis’s and Schofields department stores in Leeds.
Sheffield’s famous Hole in the Road subway also features, long before it was filled in to make way for the new tram system, with ‘Beat the Budget’ shoppers seen queuing there for cigarettes.
Do these photos bring back any happy memories for you? What’s the biggest queue you’ve ever joined in and was it worth the wait?
13. Rush hour
Buses stand idle due to the crews' overtime ban, as the queues grow longer in Bradford, in May 1970 | YPN
14. Weekend away
A happy line-up of Evening Post Women's Circle members ready to set off from The Calls, Leeds, for their annual birthday weekend at the Royal Hotel, Scarborough, on July 8, 1978 | YPN
15. Wines and spirits
Beat the Budget drinkers out in force at Augustus Barnett Wines and Spirits on Ecclesall Road South, Sheffield, in April 1975 | Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
16. Open wide
Children queue for the dentist's chair at Cardinal Square School, in Beeston, Leeds, on October 7, 1965. The newly-formed mobile dentistry unit was spending a fortnight there as part of a drive to encourage youngsters to look after their teeth. Miss M. Clarke (left) and Miss J. Sloan are seen giving hygiene treatment and instruction to the children. | YPN
17. Wilson Peck
A long queue outside the Wilson Peck music store, on the corner of Barkers Pool and Leopold Street, Sheffield, in April 1973 | Sheffield Newspapers
18. Wash those hands
The long queue for the two basins where 70 pupils must wash at St Luke's Primary School, Leeds, in January 1974 | YPN