Bayswater Avenue and Harehills Road are also featured in this gallery showcasing life around the community in the 1940s. The images are published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. They also run heritage blog The Secret Library Leeds, which provides a behind the scenes look at the Central Library and highlights from its special collections, including rare books hidden away in the stacks. READ MORE: 11 nostalgic photos take you back to Harehills in the 1980s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Harehills in the 1940s
View from Gledhow Road (foreground) to Bayswater Avenue, a street of red brick-built, back-to-back terraced homes. Standing at the junction are numbers 18 (right) and 20 (left) Gledhow Road, the premises of Woodcock & Co., grocers. The shop has two awnings and a sign saying 'Bonus, 1/- in the pound, paid quarterly'. The junction on the left, adjacent to number 20, is Bayswater Road, which eventually joins Roundhay road. The gable end seen at the left edge is occupied by back-to-back houses addressed as number 22 Gledhow Road, left, and number 1 Arundel Street. The Arundels are a series of back-to-back streets off Bayswater Road. Bayswter Avenue runs to the junction with Roseville Road. Pictured in July 1949. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
8. Harehills in the 1940s
The north side of Bayswater Avenue pictured in July 1949. The houses are brick built back-to-back, separated by the entrances to the outside toilets. The houses have distinctive stone mullions to the doors and windows. The avenue is cobbled, there is a gas lamp on the pavement. The sash windows have net curtains. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
9. Harehills in the 1940s
A view of the construction of a static water supply basin which was constructed as a temporary wartime measure at Bowling Green Leeds Constitutional Club. Hill Top Mount can be seen on left with Ellers Grove on the right. Pictured in July 1942. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
10. Harehills in the 1940s
Taken during construction of static water supply basin which is been built on the constitutional club bowling green. Eller's Grove is on the right with Hill Top Mount on the left. Pictured in June 1942. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
11. Harehills in the 1940s
Shops at nos. 299-313 by the junction with Harehills Lane. Co-operative Insurance Society, H. Stott decorator, N. Barker ladies hairdresser, Black Boy Chocolate Co., Sillers Ltd. perambulator makers, J. Hamilton jewellers and Dawson and Co. drapers shown. Poster for the Grand Theatre visible. Tram lines and a tram crossing sign can be seen. Pictured in Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
12. Harehills in the 1940s
Shops at numbers 303 to 307 Roundhay Road. The shops are; number 303, H.R. Stott, decorators; number 305, Norman Barker, hairdresser and number 307, The Black Boy Chocolate Co. Ltd. The shops are converted semi-detached houses. Pictured in August 1947. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net