The gallery showcases all aspects of daily life along the popular commuter route – from shops and pubs, through to landmarks and characters - during the 1970s and 1980s. They were two decades which brought Yorkshire Television studios into focus as well as Leeds City Fire Brigade headquarters. Many of these photos have been hidden away in the YEP archive and never seen before. READ MORE: Memories of lost Leeds pubs in Burley and Kirkstall LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
4. Kirkstall Road in the 1980s
Former Leeds United and England manager Don Revie is pictured escorting daughter Kim to the YTV Studiosin July 1980 where she was interviewed about her recently released first pop record, "It's Come Back Again". Photo: YPN
5. Kirkstall Road in the 1980s
Employees of Yorkshire Television line up outside their studios on Kirkstall Road in the shape of the YTV emblem in August 1986 Photo: YPN
6. Kirkstall Road in the 1980s
The queue at Newton's pork butchers stretched more than 100 yards on Christmas Eve 1980 as hundreds of people waited patiently to buy a piece of tradition - a large pork pie. Photo: YPN