This landmark was enjoying a new lease of life with a full house night after night in the 1980s. The Crescent on Dewsbury Road was thriving as a entertainment centre with bingo a popular draw. It had previously been a cinema for more than four decades before closing at the end of the 1960s. The photo is one of 11 charting life around the south Leeds suburb during the 1980s using photos from the Yorkshire Evening Post, the vast majority of which have never been seen before. News stories making the local headlines during the decade are also featured a robbery outside a bank in the community and the public being given the chance to look round a historic gem after a year long restoration. READ MORE: Memories of lost Leeds pubs in Beeston, Holbeck and Cottingley LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
2. Beeston in the 1980s
Do you remember these shops? Pictured in December 1984. | YPN Photo: YPN
3. Beeston in the 1980s
Trentham Street sub post office pictured in January 1985. | YPN Photo: YPN
4. Beeston in the 1980s
March 1988 and detectives were hunting two men who snatched cash bags outside the Yorkshire on Dewsbury Road. The robbers struck as a woman employee of a petrol station was delivering the money - said to be a four figure sum - to the branch. | YPN Photo: YPN
6. Beeston in the 1980s
August 1989 and Beeston resident Tom Wilson was being threatened with a £400 fine over the state of his garden on Allenby Road, pictured. | YPN Photo: YPN