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
19. Cross Green
Pictured is Easy Road from the junction with Temple View on the left in August 2003. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
20. Farsley
Clive Pickles, headteacher at Priesthorpe School, looks across an area where new classrooms were going to be built in February 2003. | James Hardisty Photo: James Hardisty
21. Leeds city centre
The Pleasurettes - Kookie, Sassy and Sparkly - entertain the crowds as part of the Rhythms of the City festival on Briggate in July 2003. | YPN Photo: YPN
22. Beeston
Cardinal Crescent Youth Club leader Yvonne Crowther who impressed Prime Minister Tony Blair when he visited the Centre. | YPN Photo: YPN
23. Chapel Allerton
Chapel Allerton Arts Festival in August 2003. North Leeds Jazz Orchestra performing at the event on Regent Street. | Steve Riding Photo: Steve Riding
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Share your memories of Leeds in 2003 with Andrew Hutchinson via email at: [email protected] or tweet him - @AndyHutchYPN | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net