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
19. Leeds Free School
Pupils reading comics at Leeds Free School in February 1973.
20. Leeds Grammar School
Speech day at Leeds Grammar School in October 1973. Pictured, from left, Martin Francis, Geoffrey Bellamy, Chotai Sanjay, Robert Brakewell, Jonathan Harcourt, Bob Nowill, Peter Levine and Ian Bosley.
21. St. Hilda's C of E Primary
Children on the playground at St. Hilda's C of E Primary School on Cross Green Lane in February 1974.
22. Deepdale Infants' School
Another shivering winter faced pupils at Deepdale Infants' School, a 30 year old "temporary built" school in Boston Spa, in October 1974. The parents' action group had drawn up a petition pressing for more urgent action from Leeds Education Committee and the Department of Education in finding a replacement for the flimsily built school.
23. Castleton Primary
One of the crowded classrooms at Castleton Primary School in January 1974. Paint is peeling from the walls.
24. Armley Church of England Primary
A teacher gives instruction in one of the classrooms heated by an open fire at Armley Church of England Primary on Wesley Road in January 1974.