The nostalgic images capture scenes around Yorkshire during July and August in the early 70s.
Children are shown enjoying a kickabout on the street, with the school gates behind them locked for the summer holidays, playing on the village green outside the pub, and zooming down a huge slide on the promenade.
Cub Scouts are seen having the time of their lives at summer camp, youngsters are entertained by the barrel organ man and his performing monkeys, and families are pictured splashing around in a huge paddling pool.
Some of the more unusual images include a hosedown for the stone lions guarding the town hall, a hot air balloon ready for lift-off, and a huge turnout for an It’s a Knockout competition in the local park.
This retro photo gallery also shows some of the best-loved shops of the early 70s, and the cars you might remember driving, and players from Leeds United and Sheffield United being put through their paces during summer training.
Pretty Woman singer Roy Orbison is pictured meeting fans at a popular variety club, excavations are seen taking place at one of Yorkshire’s most historic sites, and a daredevil motorcyclist attempts to defy gravity as the crowd holds its breath during a gala display.
Do these photos bring back any happy memories for you of carefree summers during the early 70s?
1. Wheee!
Youngsters hurtle down a huge slide on the promenade at Bridlington in July 1972 | Sheffield Newspapers
2. Scout camp
Cub Scouts having a great time at the annual camp of groups from the Don District of Sheffield at Hesley Woods, Chapeltown, in July 1970 | Sheffield Newspapers
3. Village green
Youngsters play on the village green outside the Cricketers Arms pub in Seacroft, Leeds, in July 1972 | YPN
4. Excavations
Sandal Castle, Wakefield, during excavation work in July 1972 to unravel its changes and developments from its early 12th-century beginnings to its mid-17th-century end | YPN
5. Adventure playground
Children at the Ten Town Adventure Playground, on the Woodthorpe Estate, Sheffield, in July 1972 | Sheffield Newspapers
6. 70s shops
Shops on Carlton Street, Castleford, in July 1971, including Stylo, Army Stores, Ready Foods, Wallace Arnold and Marcer | YPN