1996 was a year which featured part of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal being drained and bad weather catching shoppers off guard. It was also a 12 months which saw a bomb scare bring the city centre to a standstill and the victim of a racially motivated assault being reunited with the Good Samaritans who came to his aid. Enjoy these photos, plucked from the YEP archive, charting a year in the life of your city centre. READ MORE: 22 photos take you back to Leeds city centre in 1992 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Leeds city centre in 1996
Shoppers in the city centre were caught out by freak rain storms in August 1996. Photo: Justin Lloyd
8. Leeds city centre in 1996
The Lord Mayor of Leeds Coun Peggy White lays the foundation stone at Whitehall, the new city centre office development, with Graham Hall, group executive director of Yorkshire Electricity Group Plc, in June 1996. Photo: Mark Bickerdike
9. Leeds city centre in 1996
City centre office workers were evacuated as a bomb scare brought confusion and concern in July 1996. Photo: Dan Oxtoby
10. Leeds city centre in 1996
City centre office staff make their way to work past magnificent floral beds outside Leeds Civic Hall in August 1996. The city was hoping for success in the Britain in Bloom Awards. Photo: Roy Fox
11. Leeds city centre in 1996
Early morning Christmas shoppers on Albion Street in the city centre in December 1996/. Photo: James Hardisty
12. Leeds city centre in 1996
April 1996 and Calendar's Christa Ackroyd and pupils from Guiseley School were in city centre chasing the Plain English Roadshow's gobbledygook monster out of town. Photo: Justin Lloyd