These wonderful photos take you back to queues and more queues as bargain hunters descended on the city centre and beyond for the Christmas sales. Did you pick up a bargain of all-time back in the day? READ MORE: 33 closed Leeds pubs which will stir fond memories for drinkers LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook

1. Leeds Christmas sales
The queue outside the Leeds Sony Centre early on Boxing Day morning in December 1997. Photo: Mike Cowling

2. Leeds Christmas sales
Part of the queue which formed outside Lewis's for the sales in December 1975. Photo: YPN

3. Leeds Christmas sales
December 1999 and bargain-hunters indulge in the great British tradition of battling to buy next year's Christmas cards. Photo: YPN

4. Leeds Christmas sales
Bargain hunters eagerly await the opening of Marks and Spencer's store in Leeds city centre to open in December 1995. Photo: Peter Thacker

5. Leeds Christmas sales
Shoppers walk down Commercial Street in the city centre on the lookout for bargains in December 1998. Photo: Mel Hulme

6. Leeds Christmas sales
Love and shopping hand in hand. A busy Briggate for the Christmas sales in December 2000. Photo: Emma Nichols