PC Gerald Fenton, one of the Chapeltown community officers, is pictured helping take children over a pedestrian crossing in the summer of 1973. This was a year which featured children at a high school banned from using the on-site swimming pool owing to floating debris and plans revealed to turn a well-known former city centre pub into an amusement arcade. READ MORE: 17 photos to take you back to Leeds in 1971 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
1. Leeds in 1973
The Queen Mother was in Leeds to see the Freedom of the City conferred on H.M.S. Ark Royal in October 1973. Pictured is Julia King, daughter of crew member, Petty Officer Electrician, Ian King, presenting Her Majesty with a posy of flowers. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
2. Leeds in 1973
The Right Hon. Christopher Chattaway, MP then Minister for Industrial Development, lays the foundation stone for Miers new factory in Cross Green in October 1973. PIC: West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
3. Leeds in 1973
Countess of Harewood in the Bird Garden at Harewood House with an emu in November 1973. This was one of two six month old new additions to the Bird Garden, purchased from Whipsnade Zoo. They refused to pose for the photograph. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
4. Leeds in 1973
Welterweight boxer Jeff Gale married Jacquie Foster at St Peter's Church in Bramley in October 1973. His best man was friend Joe Bugner (right) the European heavyweight boxing champion. PIC: West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
5. Leeds in 1973
A study in expressions as members of the International Society of Violin and Bow Makers examine some old English violins at an exhibition at L. P. Balmforth and Son's Violin Centre on Merrion Street in May 1973.
6. Leeds in 1973
Pupils at Temple Moor High were banned from using the school's swimming pool which was littered with floating debris. Pictured, unable to take the plunge, are Mike Beardsall (left) and Phil Johnson.