Your city has undergone some huge changes in the last 50 years. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos take you back to Leeds in 1970. READ MORE: Astonishing photos show life in Leeds during the 1980s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join the Leeds Retro facebook group

1. Leeds city centre
Firefighters fight a blaze which destroyed a sports store. Around 50 pupils at a nearby school of music were evacuated as fire crews battled the flames. | YPN Photo: YPN

2. Headingley
Recognise this popular Leeds commuter route? It's Otley Road, to the north of the junction with the ring road, taken at 8.30am in February 1970 | YPN Photo: YPN

3. Leeds city centre
Did you enjoy a night at the flicks here back in the day? The ABC cinema on Vicar Lane. | YPN Photo: YPN



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