These charming photos showcase life around Chapel Allerton in the 1980s powered by images digitised for the first time from the Yorkshire Evening Post. They capture shops in the heart of the suburb as well as memories from Chapel Allerton Hospital and Chapel Allerton Lawn Tennis & Squash Club. They are sure to evoke memories for a generation of people who called Chap A home back in the day. READ MORE: Memories of lost Leeds pubs: Chapel Allerton, Sheepscar, Chapeltown and Little London LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Chapel Allerton in the 1980s
November 1987 and money raised by the Friends of Chapel Allerton Hospital was helping to make life more pleasant for gallstone sufferers. In the last year the Friends had bought the hospital a duodenoscope which removed the need for general anaesthetic and a long stay when gallstones are removed. And they had added a £5,000 disinfector to the £12,000 for the duodenoscope. | YPN Photo: YPN
8. Chapel Allerton in the 1980s
A new £20,000 day unit built with money raised by Chapel Allerton Hospital's League of Friends was officially opened in April 1981. Pictured at the opening, from left, are Stephen Farey, hospital administrator; Ken Yoxall, chairman of the League of Friends; nursing officer Katherine Dye and Noel Capindale, chairman of Leeds Area Health Authority. | YPN Photo: YPN
9. Chapel Allerton in the 1980s
July 1982 and a 'M.A.S.H.' style tent operating theatre went into action at Chapel Allerton Hospital put up in a single storey ward. The 'big top' had been set up while the hospitals' two operating theatres had a £60,000 modernisation scheme carried out. | YPN Photo: YPN
10. Chapel Allerton in the 1980s
Defiant nurse Helen Carr, right, pictured in the lounge of her flat in the nurses' home at Newton Green Wing of Chapel Allerton Hospital with flatmate nurse Ann Leech in March 1986. Helen was determined to sit tight despite Leeds Western Health Authority now not able to offer her accommodation under new Government guidelines. | YPN Photo: YPN
11. Chapel Allerton in the 1980s
Superintendent radiographer Mss D Chant with former patients Irene Dixon, left, and Eva Tasker at Chapel Allerton Hospital in November 1986. | YPN Photo: YPN
12. Chapel Allerton in the 1980s
Pauline Searle, superintendent radiographer, left, explains the operation of a linear accelerator - part of the £1.5 million extension to radiotherapy services at Chapel Allerton Hospital during an open day in November 1986. | YPN Photo: YPN