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?
33. Revving up
Standing on the wagon, the Dean of Ripon, The Very Reverend Edwin le Grice, delivers an address at a traction engine rally in Harewood Park, near Leeds, in August 1971 | YPN
34. Full steam ahead
Raymond Woodhead, foreman erector, gives the thumbs-up sign from the cab of the 13-ton wood-burning locomotive, Brazil2, at Hunslet Engine Works, Leeds, in November 1971. It was the last steam locomotive to be built by the Hunslet Engine Company. | YPN
36. Centenary celebrations
The Mayor of Rotherham, Ald. Stanley Crowther, addresses the crowd in All Saints Square during the town's centenary celebrations in August 1971 | Sheffield Newspapers