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?
19. Hot Bread Kitchen
The queue for bread at the Merrion Centre, Leeds, in December 1974 | YPN
20. FA Cup
Sheffield Wednesday fans queue for FA Cup semi-final tickets outside the club's Hillsborough stadium in March 1965 | Sheffield Newspapers
21. Bread
The queue on Exchange Street, Sheffield, during the bread strike in September 1977 | Sheffield Newspapers
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22. On the platform
Passengers wait on the busy platform at Leeds City Station as a train approaches from Glasgow for London in May 1955 | YPN
23. Waiting for the bus
The queue for buses on Corporation Street, Rotherham, after buses were not running for a busmen's meeting in September 1970 | Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
24. Waiting in the rain
Passengers queue for buses on Shaw Lane, Headingley, Leeds, in October 1961 | YPN