This photo shows Wellington Street looking in the direction of the city centre at the time of the construction of Stage 3 of the Inner Ring Road, the section from Westgate to Wellington Road. The clock tower of your Yorkshire Evening Post building is seen near the oncoming traffic to the right and the high rise block in the background is Marlborough Towers. This was 1974, a year which also featured thousands turn out to celebrate an engineering feat on the Leeds Liverpool Canal. Enjoy these images, a mix from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service, celebrating a year in the life of your city. READ MORE: 23 photos to take you back to Leeds in 1973 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Leeds city centre
Inside S and R drapery at Kirkgate Market in October 1974. | YPN Photo: YPN
8. Leeds in 1974
Members of the East Leeds Youth Orchestra pictured in March 1974 with Michael Landa (left) conductor of the recorder group, and Mr. J. Renhard, the orchestra's conductor. Photo: YPN
9. Leeds
Firefighters quickly put on breathing apparatus to be able to work inside the suffocating atmosphere of a smoke filled house in Leeds in November 1974. | Graham Lindley Photo: Graham Lindley
10. Hunslet
Blackened by more than a century's grime, Hunslet Parish Church was set to be demolished in February 1974. The clock tower was to remain to become part of a new parish church. | YPN Photo: YPN
11. Headingley
New Yorkshire CCC president Sir Kenneth Parkinson gets some inside information from coach Doug Padgett on the county's prospects for the coming season during a visit to the Headingley nets to meet the players in April 1974. | YPN Photo: YPN
12. Leeds Liverpool Canal
Like football fans on the terraces, thousands watch the barge Wye as she marks the 200th anniversary of a Yorkshire engineering feat in March 1974. It was the construction of the Five-Rise locks on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Bingley. | YPN Photo: YPN