Your city has undergone some huge changes in the last 50 years. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos take you back to Leeds in 1966. It was a year which saw the city's police helped in the fight against crime and celebrations as England won the World Cup. Is this a city you remember? READ MORE: 24 photos to take you back to Leeds in 1968 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
England fans gather round a television set in the window of a Leeds shop to watch the World Cup in 1966. | YPN Photo: YPN

2. Yeadon
Leeds Bradford Airport showing construction work in progress in September 1966 on the building of a new terminal. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net

3. Bank
Looking towards Garden Street from the roundabout at the junction of Marsh Lane, Duke Street (in foreground), Kirkgate and East Street. Businesses on Garden Street are K. Clynes & Son, rags and waste, at no.7, J. Cohda, mantle manufacturer at no.9 and A.W. Angus & Co. Ltd., printers and bookbinders at no.13. Pictured in June 1966. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net

4. Wetherby
A queue on the A1 south of Wetherby at the junction with the Leeds road in April 1966 which carried a line of cars right back to Collingham. | YPN Photo: YPN


6. Local football
March 1966 and pictured is Joe James 'Dick' Russell who decided to retire as secretary of the Yorkshire League. | YPN Photo: YPN
