These newly-discovered photos from the Yorkshire Evening Post chart a decade in the life of Ilkley and its residents in the 1960s. The photos, digitised for the first time, bring in to focus a range of familiar landmarks around the spa town. They include Ilkley Pool and Lido, White Wells, Ilkley Parish Church, Brook Street, Heathcote House, Old Bridge, Ilkley Grammar and Ilkley Moor. READ MORE: 29 of the finest photos take you back to Ilkley 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



3. Ilkley in the 1960s
The new garden and flower beds on the site of the old now demolished Wheatsheaf Hotel, opening up a view of the Parish Church in April 1963. There was to be a new driveway, extreme right, which was hoped would ease congestion on Church Street. | YPN Photo: YPN

4. Ilkley in the 1960s
Mary Dewhirst, secretary of Ilkley Civic Society, walks alongside White Wells in October 1969. | YPN Photo: YPN


6. Ilkley in the 1960s
Modern development in the town left the Parish Church in full view. Pictured in May 1968. | YPN Photo: YPN
