They turn the spotlight on community issues and campaigns as well as local landmarks which dominated debate during the decade. The gallery is powered by photos from the YEP archive and showcases how social and economic winds of change impacted residents in LS13 and beyond. READ MORE: 23 photos to take you back to Bramley in the 1990s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Bramley in the 1980s
Council plans to turn Bramley Town Street into a conservation area won the support of Bramley History Society, the Victorian Society and Leeds Civic Trust in September 1986. The area picked out for conservation represented the last remaining old established stone built area of the suburb. It extended from Broad Lane to Westover Road and from Upper Town Street to Beecroft Hill. It enclosed a number of listed buildings and falls inside the conservation area of Bramley Baths and Bramley Park. | YPN Photo: YPN
8. Bramley in the 1980s
Marks and Spencer's £500,000 'thank you' gift to Leeds - the city where their empire started with the famous Penny Bazaar - was to go into building a new pensioner home in Bramley. The Leeds gift was part of the £3.5 million handed to community projects nationally to celebrate the firm's centenary in 1984. Benefiting from the Leeds gift was the Hanover Housing Association which was building a two storey pensioner development named Michael Court on Prospect View, Town Street. | YPN Photo: YPN
9. Bramley in the 1980s
January 1984 and Leeds City Council was to carry out a full investigation into structural damage affecting 24 back-to-back homes in Bramley to see if the houses could be saved. A spokeswoman for Leeds City Council said the original foundation defects together with the effects of dry summers in 1976 and 1983 had caused subsidence in the houses on Henley Crescent and Henley View. | YPN Photo: YPN
11. Bramley in the 1980s
Bramley Fall Woods was under attack from vandals in July 1988. Yet damage to an old stone shelter was dismissed by both the City Council and locals residents as a minir eyesore which couldn't detract from the essential peace and beauty of the park. | YPN Photo: YPN
12. Bramley in the 1980s
September 1987 and plans to fill in an old quarry in Bramley Fall Woods with builders' rubbish would destroy a tranquil beauty spot, claimed families in the area. M Harrison and Company, owners of Newlay Quarry, in the woods submitted a proposal to fill in the site with construction and demolition waste and build an access road to it across recreation grounds in front of Bramley Fall Woods. But outraged residents launched a petition against the scheme, claiming it would destroy the tranquility of a local beauty spot. | YPN Photo: YPN