The gallery is jam packed with local landmarks, from cinemas to pubs from shops to factories, as well as well travelled streets such as Dewsbury Road and Balm Road and areas including Camp Fields. The images are published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. They also run heritage blog The Secret Library Leeds, which provides a behind the scenes look at the Central Library and highlights from its special collections, including rare books hidden away in the stacks. READ MORE: 18 photo gems take you back to Hunslet in the 1940s LOVE LEEDS/ LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Hunslet in the 1930s
Camp Fields clearance from Back Row and Stone Row looking across to David Street and Front Row. The Bricklayers Arms is on the left and the Carpenters public house on Front Walk, on the right. Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society bakery and Victoria Engineering works can be seen on Front Row. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
8. Hunslet in the 1930s
Balm Road, cobbled with tram lines, in September 1935. Number 39, the Railway Hotel, can just be seen on the extreme left. Then is Wright Street, with one house showing. Number 45 is Bertie Colin Crookson, draper; number 47 is Joseph Richardson, greengrocer (on the corner of Wainwright Street). Above the shop are metal signs for Brasso Polish and Zebra Grate Polish. Number 49 is Edward Batty, fishmonger, who has a tiled window display. A man stands in the doorway. Number 51 is Squire Bramley, undertaker, who has a sign showing his telephone number and a large one on Wainwright Row saying he has had '23 years with the late J. Charlesworth'. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
9. Hunslet in the 1930s
This view shows a rendered house called Rocheford at Number 154 Low Road, at the junction with Pepper Lane. In a Leeds Directory for 1932 it is listed as the premises of dentist, James Cecil. There is a stone wall enclosing the garden where there is a wash house and toilet built in brick. The gable end behind number 154 is the end of a row of terraced houses in Pepper Lane, numbers 30 to 56. Pictured in September 1935. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
10. Hunslet in the 1930s
This view looks from Middleton Road, foreground, to the junction with Pepper Road, centre, before the Pepper Road improvement scheme began. Pictured in Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
11. Hunslet in the 1930s
A view showing yard and packing area of the Co-operative Wholesale Society Ltd, Brush factory which was at 2 Belle Isle Road. Pictured in September 1935 Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
12. Hunslet in the 1930s
A view looking from Carlisle Road on to the works of Arnold + Stott Glass Merchants which is on Sayner Lane. Pictured in August 1937. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net