The photos turn back the clock to 1981 and showcase the stories which were making the news around the county during the year. Locations in focus include Leeds, Wakefield, Halifax and Doncaster as well as Yorkshire’s glorious east coast. READ MORE: 18 photo memories take you around Yorkshire in 1980 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Malton
Art at Norton Comprehensive School took taken on a new meaning for pupils Christopher Atkinson, Paul Wood and Stewart Frank in March 1981. They were customising an old Austin 1100 woth comic strip characters before the car goes on show in the school courtyard. Photo: YPN
8. York
Two valuable stained glass windows in a former Methodist church have been given away by their new owners in December 1981 - The Bangladesh Islamic Association. The windows, which show Christ receiving a soldier into heaven and winged angels, were originally in Temple Street Methodist Church, Keighley. But earlier in the year the listed building was bought by the association for conversion into a mosque. It was decided that the windows would have to be removed because it is against the Muslim religion to have representations of living things in a mosque. The association has given the windows to Bradford Metropolitan Council, previous owner of the building. They were being restored by York Glaziers Trust. Photo: YPN
9. Mexborough
Captain Roger Barnett and his wife Audrey in the Salvation Army's new soup kitchen at Mexborough. Photo: YPN
10. Worsbrough
Pulling Power. A pre-First World War steam engine pulls a mole plough across a field at the Worsborough Mill Museum in August 1981. Photo: YPN
11. Hull
The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh by the Humber Bridge at the opening 1981. Photo: YPN
12. Selby
Arthur Scargill at a meeting at Selby in February 1981. Photo: Wakefield Express