17 gracious photos take you back to Garforth in the year 2000

You would think that looking at this blood-splattered door cops were dealing with a crime scene.

Yet the reality has a far less sinister explanation. The blood-splattered door of Garforth Comnmunity Association on Garforth Main Street was the aftermath of an unfortunate incident which saw gallons of blood spilt from a tanker. This was Garforth in 2000, a year which featured fond farewells at schools around the town as well as a community with plenty to celebrate. Enjoy these photos, plucked from the YEP archive, charting a year in the life of the town at the dawn of a new millennium. READ MORE: 36 photos to take you back to east Leeds in 1996 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook

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