These fantastic photos showcase life around Morley in the 1980s. The collection was lost to the world until being found in the Yorkshire Evening Post archive and scanned. They feature shopping memories as well as restaurants and pubs around the town which will be remembered by a generation of those who called the town home during the decade. The gallery also features details of new stories which were making the local headlines including a couple who were fighting a smear campaign over the £50,000 asking price for their 20 room mansion - which they bought from Leeds City Council for the knock-down price of £3,000. Foreman mechanic Jack Dixon and his wife Lillian bought Morley Hall - a listed building - for the nominal sum after the council had allowed it to become a vandalised hulk. READ MORE: Memories of lost Leeds pubs in Morley, Gildersome, Churwell and Drighlington LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
13. Morley in the 1980s
St Francis R.C. Junior and Infants School on Highcliffe Road pictured in June 1982. | YPN Photo: YPN
14. Morley in the 1980s
May 1981 and shopkeepers had dubbed plans for a pedestrian precinct at Morley as 'unthinkable' and were demanding assurances on car parking and servicing for their premises. | YPN Photo: YPN
15. Morley in the 1980s
The premises of Horsell Graphic Industries at Howley Park pictured in July 1985. | YPN Photo: YPN
17. Morley in the 1980s
The new headquarters of DEC Kitchens Ltd on Topcliffe Lane in February 1985. It was to help the firm which was launched in1 977, to treble its production of kitchen furniture. | YPN Photo: YPN
18. Morley in the 1980s
December 1982 and more than £40,000 had been spent to give a fascinating new look - and future - to the Cross Keys pub on Britannia Road. | YPN Photo: YPN