This washing drying across a road in Harehills in the 1970s should give a clue as to what day of the week this photo was taken. It was a typical scene of a Monday washday when housewives used the space of the roadway as a drying ground. It was a drying method which proved somewhat of a ‘traffic stopper’. This photo was taken on Bayswater Row in the early 1970s and is one of 12 charting memories of the decade in the suburb. The photos are sure to evoke memories for a generation of people who called Harehills dome during the 1970s. The gallery is powered using photos from the Yorkshire Evening Post archive, a few of which have been digitised for the first time. READ MORE: Memories of lost Leeds pubs in Harehills, Gipton, Roundhay and Oakwood LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
1. Harehills
Washing stretches across Bayswater Row during a Monday washday in November 1971. | YPN Photo: YPN
2. Harehills in the 1970s
June 1976 and John Waugh, a stores assistant, is pictured with a huge stock of standpipes at the Yorkshire Water Authority depot. | YPN Photo: YPN
3. Harehils in the 1970s
A trap for unwary motorists... bad road surface conditions on a link road joining the end of Roseville Road to Roundhay Road in March 1977. | YPN Photo: YPN
