Education officials wanted to close five high schools and open four primary schools. They included plans to close Braim Wood Boys School in Oakwood and Agnes Stewart Church of England School in Burmantofts with pupils merged into East Leeds Academy. Matthew Murray High School in Holbeck and South Leeds Arts College at Merlyn Rees in Belle Isle were also both earmarked for closure with a new school opened on the site of South Leeds stadium. This was Leeds in 2003, a 12 months which featured a huge win for a lucky bingo player and protesters taking to the streets of a market town. READ MORE: 26 Leeds publicans you may remember from the early 2000s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Leeds in 2003
Ringways on Whitehall Road in August 2003. The building was demolished in 2005 and new apartments, West 12, now stand on the site. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
8. Leeds in 2003
The Cube, a new city centre leisure and office development, opened. Bar Risa can be seen in the centre of this photo taken from across from Albion Street. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
9. Leeds in 2003
One of Otley's many old public houses and possibly the smallest. The Bay Horse on Market Place, at the junction with Boroughgate and pictured in October 2003. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
10. Leeds in 2003
Where you a pupil here in 2003? Allerton High School off King Lane in Moortown. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
11. Leeds in 2003
Minnie Dean, a 100 year old resident of Hunslet, browses the Leodis website in December 2003. She is pictured with Coun Judith Blake and Coun Adam Ogilvie. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
12. Leeds in 2003
This machine was deployed in Leeds city centre to clean chewing gum off the streets. Photo: Mark Bckerdike