Wilsons Butchers on Austhorpe Road aimed to put the alternative meat on menus at homes across LS15 by selling it as a barbeque special in 1998, a year in which the community had cause for celebration for different reasons. Some won money, others won a car while others were chosen as a rugby league mascot on the big stage. These photos, plucked from the YEP archive, turn back the clock to showcase 12 months in the life of Cross Gates and its residents. Is anyone you know featured? READ MORE: 12 photo memories from around Cross Gates in 1997 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Cross Gates in 1998
Staff at Hogan and Co estate agents in Cross Gates. Pictured in September 1998 Photo: Dan Oxtoby
8. Cross Gates in 1998
John Green, of Wilsons Butchers, bites into the shop's new barbeque special, a crocodile kebab. Photo: Dan Oxtoby
9. Cross Gates in 1998
This Kirsty Pullan from Cross Gates who was chosen as the Great Britain mascot in the First Test against New Zealand at Huddersfield. Photo: Gary Longbottom
10. Cross Gates in 1998
YEP bingo winner Doreen Howson is presented with her £1,000 cash prize by Mike Jenkins, manager of Mecca Bingo club at Cross Gates. Photo: Graham Lindley
11. Cross Gates in 1998
Local Rags to Riches lottery winners Eileen Johnson and daughter Samantha Holdsworth, tried their hand at the new National Lottery Instants TV Dreams game at the Crossgates Centre Photo: Hickes
12. Cross Gates in 1998
Young Simone Valentine and Holly Williams meet Santa at Crossgates Shopping Centre in November 1998. Photo: Nigel Hillier/UNP