This gallery also features photos of students at colleges in the city during a decade of change. The photos focus on schools - both primary and secondary - across Leeds who were making the news headlines at the time. Is your school or college featured from back in the day? READ MORE: Leeds city centre in the 1980s - Shops and landmarks in focus LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Armley Middle School
Armley Middle School pictured in September 1985. It was put up as a Board School and opened in September 1900. The infant's department on the ground floor catered for children over the age of three and had 400 places. | YPN Photo: YPN
8. Armley Primary
'Save Armley Primary' was the no-nonsense message from these parents' action group members in JUly 1986. Pictured, from left, are Irene Merrill, Lynn Edwards, Wendy Haigh and Ellen Trueman with their petition outside the school. | YPN Photo: YPN
9. Corpus Christi High School
Corpus Christi High School was one of five schools offering pupils a new technology course from the third year onwards in January 1983. Pictured are Tony Raftery and Andrew Walton working on an electronic 'car'. | YPN Photo: YPN
10. John Smeaton High School
John Smeaton High School pictured in October 1989, which with 1,000 pupils at the time made it one of the biggest in Leeds. | YPN Photo: YPN
11. Leeds Free School
Class in session at Leeds Free School in October 1980. Pictured is teacher Ian Paul with pupils Mark (left) and Richard. The unofficial Leeds Free School was set up in a disused chapel on Woodhouse Lane to provide an alternative to the State Education System. | YPN Photo: YPN
12. Parkside High School
Parkside High School in Beeston pictured in February 1980. Acting headteacher Ken Bond was deciding how to tell the 500-plus boys, the school would close in 1983 - its silver jubilee year. | YPN Photo: YPN