It proved to be a decade of unprecedented change for Seacroft and its residents. The 1960s saw more than 100 homes earmarked for compulsory purchase by Leeds Corporation to make way for redevelopment while Seacroft Shopping Centre was opened by The Queen as part of the £1.25 million Civic Centre development which, at the time, was heralded as a novel way of building an outdoor purpose built town centre. New houses and flats were built providing a touch of modernity while old cottages and the village pub helped maintain the community’s old world atmosphere and links to its history and heritage. These wonderful photos, plucked from the Yorkshire Evening Post archive, showcase the huge social and economic change and are sure to evoke memories for a generation of those who called LS14 home back in the day. READ MORE: 15 photos take you back to Seacroft Shopping Centre during the 1960s and 1970s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
1. Seacroft in the 1960s
The upper precinct of the Seacroft Shopping Centre in October 1965. In the background is a 17-storey block of flats. | YPN Photo: YPN
2. Seacroft in the 1960s
St James vicarage with the church in the background. Pictured in April 1963. | YPN Photo: YPN
3. Seacroft in the 1960s
A bird's eye view which many Seacroft residents enjoyed from their lofty flats near the shopping centre - block upon block of council houses disappear into the mist. Pictured in January 1968. | YPN Photo: YPN
4. Seacroft in the 1960s
Seacroft Village Green with the Cricketers Arms on the right in May 1968. | YPN Photo: YPN
5. Seacroft in the 1960s
November 1967 and new houses and flats in the background give a touch of modernity to the scene where old cottages and the village pub still maintain the old-world atmosphere around the Green. | YPN Photo: YPN
6. Seacroft in the 1960s
A half demolished school pictured in October 1969. | YPN Photo: YPN