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
19. Leeds in 2005
September 2005 and 70 years on a ceremony to rededicate the Leeds Pals monument at Colsterdale was held. Pictured is Frank Fieldsend with the standard.
20. Leeds in 2005
Pictured is Alex Robertson in the Leeds City Art Gallery stores in December 2005. Photo: Gerard Binks
21. Leeds in 2005
Artist get ready for the Ilkley Art Festival, by walking across the pedestrian crossing on The Grove in September 2005. Pictured, from left, are Maurice Lee, Leslie Simpson, Alan Morby and Trevor Smith. Photo: Simon Hulme
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