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?
25. Waiting for the dole
Youngsters at the youth Careers Office in Leeds on September 22, 1972 | YPN
26. Dedicated fans
The FA Cup queue in Bradford in February 1960, which stretched for between 600 and 700 yards | YPN
27. Salvation Army
Regulars queue for a meal at the Salvation Army Hostel, on Charter Row, Sheffield, in 1978 | Sheffield Newspapers Ltd
29. Vaccinations
People line up on Danube Grove, Gelderd Road, Leeds, to be vaccinated in April 1953 | YPN
30. Polio vaccine
The long queue and line of prams outside Bean School, Hull, for the polio vaccine on October 17, 1961 | YPN