The Halfway House Hotel at the junction of Scotchman Lane in Morley is around 7.5 miles from Wakefield and Bradford. This photo from 1967 is one of 15 charting a year in the life of Morley and its residents. Landmarks, shops, factories and well travelled streets all fall under the spotlight. The photos are a mix from the David Atkinson Archive and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. READ MORE: 57 of the best photos take you back to Morley town centre in the 1990s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
1. Morley in 1967
The Halfway House Hotel at the junction of Scotchman Lane pictured in April 1967. | David Atkinson Archive Photo: David Atkinson Archive
2. Morley in 1967
Two shops (Morris Wallpaper and Paints and Red Arrow TV Rentals) pictured in May 1967 at the southern end of Queen Street, which occupy what was originally one large building dated 1890 and called The Benefactory. This was built by an influential draper named Frederick Tesseyman who was responsible in 1879 for organising Tuesday as half-day closing in Morley. | David Atkinson Archive Photo: David Atkinson Archive
3. Morley in 1967
A parade of traditional small shops at the bottom of Fountain Street in July 1967. Among this parade are a grocer (Gallons), a pork butcher (Greens), a coal merchant (Sydney & Brook), a clothing shop, a baker's shop (Colbecks), a butchers, a greengrocers and a bicycle shop. The photo dates from about the time Asda had bought the empty Ebenezer Primitive Methodist Chapel, which was opposite the Temperance Hall at the other side of King Street where this parade of shops ends. | David Atkinson Archive Photo: David Atkinson Archive
4. Morley in 1967
This trench, being dug by the gas board along Station Road in June 1967, uncovered an old well straight in front of the boiler house which had been joined on to the gable end of the fly wheel wall in the lithograph of Crank Mill in 1866. | David Atkinson Archive Photo: David Atkinson Archive
5. Morley in 1967
A view of the A653T Leeds to Dewsbury Road between Tingley roundabout and the junction with Wide Lane. The photograph was taken from the northern edge of Topcliffe Colliery spoil heap, which had mostly turned to red shale through continuous burning underground. Pictured in May 1967. | David Atkinson Archive Photo: David Atkinson Archive
6. Morley in 1967
High Street looking towards the railway bridge which, while appearing decrepit and derelict, was still taking the occasional freight train into Morley Top Station. Pictured in May 1967. | David Atkinson Archive Photo: David Atkinson Archive