Department store Allders enjoyed a nine year stint serving a generation of shoppers keen for their retail fix. Did you go to the big closing down sale? Even the store's fixtures and fittings were up for grabs. This was Leeds in 2005, a year which will also be remembered for hidden treasures, job cuts and ten-year-old boy being was the subject of an anti-social behaviour order. These photos, plucked from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service, chart a year in the life of Leeds in the middle of the new millennium. READ MORE: 24 photos to take you back to Leeds in 2004 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Leeds in 2005
The Cube at the top of Albion Street. It's located at the base of K2 at the junction with Merrion Street, at the opposite corner to St. John's Centre. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
8. Leeds in 2005
Albion Place looking East towards Briggate in May 2005. On the left is River Island fashions by the junction with Lands Lane; next to this is Costa Coffee coffee shop. Shps on the right include All-sports sports goods, Pasta Romagna cafe and Wallace Arnold travel agents. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
9. Leeds in 2005
A view from the top of Otley Chevin in August 2005. Photo: Jonathan Gawthorpe
11. Leeds in 2005
Leeds United players started their pre-season training in June 2005 at their Thorp Arch training ground near Wetherby.
12. Leeds in 2005
The reaction from fans when Lemar came on stage at Party in the Park at Temple Newsam in July 2005. Photo: Simon Hulme