It was a year when families living in back to backs in Hunslet faced an uncertain future with plans unveiled to demolish their homes. Row upon row of terrace houses in the heart of the community were earmarked to be bulldozed with families relocated under a Leeds City Council slum clearance programme. These wonderful photos take you down streets which now have no name - Bagnall Street, Alton Terrace, Back Carey Street, Heywood Place, Elm Tree Street and Leek Street. The photos are published courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, which collects and looks after the unique documentary heritage of the region dating from the 12th century to the present day - more than 800 years of local history. It also runs Catablogue, an online blog dedicated to preserving the past, serving the present and protecting the future. READ MORE: Memories of lost Leeds pubs in Hunslet, Belle Isle, Middleton and Stourton LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
1. Hunslet in 1960
A young girl stands in the doorway of a house on Bagnall Street in December 1960. The row of back-to-back terraced houses separated between numbers 27 and 29 by a yard housing shared outside toilets. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
2. Hunslet in 1960
The run down store room of the John Dobson, plasterer and concreater, City Patent Fireproof Partition Works in December 1960. On the far left are back-to-back terraced houses of Bagnall Street. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
3. Hunslet in 1960
Four through terraced houses on Bagnall Street with Leek Street on the right. Just visible on the left are advertisements for Tetley's and Guinness on the wall of the grocery and off licence at number 23 Leek Street. Pictured in December 1960. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
4. Hunslet in 1960
A row of through terraced houses on Carey Street in December 1960. A bicycle sits under the window of number 8 on the left. This area was soon to be demolished and families relocated under a Leeds City Council slum clearance programme. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
5. Hunslet in 1960
The store room of John Dobson, Plasterer and Concreter City Patent Fireproof Partition Works. On the left a lorry is parked marked Dobson's, plasterers, fibrous and solid modelling. Pictured in December 1960. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
6. Hunslet in 1960
Three back-to-back terraced houses on Bagnall Street each with a small private yard, ground floor entrance and cellar entrance with steps leading down from the yard. On the far left it is possible to see from marks on the side of number 32 where number 34 once stood. This and the adjoining property at the rear has been demolished and the site now used to park a car. Pictured in December 1960. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service