This gallery charting a decade in the life of Richmond Hill in the 1960s features youngsters using a derelict house as a playground. The photos also feature corner shops, off-licences as well as well travelled streets at the heart of the community including Pontefract Lane. The images are a mix from West Yorkshire Archive Service and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. READ MORE: 17 photos to take you back to Richmond Hill in 1963 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
13. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
A back yard accessible from Pontefract Lane and Aysgarth Mount pictured in September 1966. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
14. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
The house on the left is no 2 Cross Aysgarth Mount with nos. 13 & 15 of Back Aysgarth Mount. A small child stands against the wall of the back yard whilst washing is drying on the line. Pictured in September 1966. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
15. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
Pontefract Lane in September 1966. Pictured is a row of houses with the gated entrance to a yard on the left. On the right of this is the shared outside toilet before the advent of indoor plumbing. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
16. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
Double fronted terraced houses on Aysgarth Mount pictured in September 1966. On the right is the lean-to originally built to house the shared toilets, now used to store dustbins since the advent of indoor plumbing. On the right is the gated entrance to the yard with the cobbled road entrance to Back Aysgarth Mount. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
17. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
On the far left of the image is number 33 Temple View Road, a grocery store advertising Capstan cigarettes, Wills Gold Flake and Neilson's Canadian Ice-Cream. On the right of the image are numbers 7 to 11 Balkan Grove. At the corner a large advertisement for Wills Star cigarettes has been painted. This row of back-to-back terrace houses are split between numbers 7 & 9 by a shared outside toilet block. Overhead, clothes hang from a line stretched across the street. Pictured in July 1963. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
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