Your city has undergone some huge changes in the last four decades. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos take you back to Leeds in 1979, a year which featured famous faces, demolitions, and bad weather. READ MORE: 17 photos to take you back to Leeds in 1970 | Incredible pictures show life in Leeds during the 1980s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join the Leeds Retro facebook group
7. Kirkstall
Kirkstall Power Station at the time of the demolition of the cooling tower in April 1979. | Leeds Museums Service Photo: Leeds Museums Service
8. Leeds city centre
Quebec Street showing the junction with Toronto Street (right) in April 1979. Quebec Street opened in 1872 and was named in memory of General Wolfe who captured Quebec in Canada in 1759 but was killed in the Battle Plains of Abraham. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
9. Leeds city centre
The side of the General Post Office building from Quebec Street. It fronts on to City Square, off to the right, in April 1979. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
10. Boston Spa
A row of shops on Boston Spa High Street in March 1979. In the foreground is the Dolly Tub Launderette, with the entrance to the Three Cellars off licence and wine bar to the left. Next to this is Mayfair Hair Studio, then a shop selling fancy goods, stationery and ice cream. On the end of the row is the Spice Box restaurant. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
11. Sheepscar
Northwood House replaced the former Midland Bank on North Street . | YPN Photo: YPN
12. Richmond Hill
Dancing had once been frowned upon in Methodist circles. Members of Newbourne Methodist Chapel were glad those days were gone, as this photo shows from March 1979. | YPN Photo: YPN