It was a decade which featured a city education system struggling to cope with crumbling buildings, overcrowding, and freezing classrooms. These photos focus on schools - both primary and secondary - as well as colleges across Leeds who were making the news headlines at the time. Is your school or college featured from back in the day? READ MORE: 14 Leeds schools and colleges making the news in the 1980s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
1. Victoria Middle School
Edward Foster, right, vice chairman of Victoria Middle School Parent Teacher Association talks with other parents outside the gates of the school in April 1974. | YPN Photo: YPN
2. Temple Moor High School
An arrow pinpoints the panel at Temple Moor High School's pool in June 1973 which parents feared was a risk to children. They were frightened that curious pupils may crawl through and fall into the stagnant baths. | YPN Photo: YPN
3. Shire Oak School
This is Joan Harper, headteacher at Shire Oak School in Headingley pictured in May 1973. | YPN Photo: YPN
4. Roundhay High School
Does this school look familiar? It is Roundhay High as seen from the avenue of trees in Old Park Road in July 1972. | YPN Photo: YPN
5. Trinity & All Saints College
Sculptor and senior lecturer Charles Panson helps workmen put up his Crucifixtion figure at Trinity & All Saints College in Horsforth in October 1971. He took 18 months to complete the bronze and glass fibre work. | YPN Photo: YPN
6. Thomas Danby College
The new Thomas Danby College at Sheepscar in June 1977. | YPN Photo: YPN