The Thornton’s Arcade clock, which featuring characters from Ivanhoe, has provided to be a fascination to generations of residents and visitors to the city centre. It is pictured here in 1997, a year which Leeds had plenty to shout and moan about. The White Rose Shopping Centre opened in the spring while protestors made their voice heard over plans to site a new Morrisons supermarket in Kirkstall. Enjoy these photos, plucked from the YEP archive, charting a year in the life of your city. READ MORE: 33 closed Leeds pubs which will stir fond memories for drinkers LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
1. Leeds in 1997
Enjoy these photo memories celebrating a year in the life of Leeds. Photo: Keith Lawson
2. Leeds in 1997
March 1997 and staff at Wallace Arnold on Gelderd Road were protesting at proposals to selling off the company to rivals Shearings. Photo: Roy Fox
3. Leeds in 1997
Councillor Linda Middleton, Lord Mayor of Leeds, and Leeds Rhinos head coach Dean Bell, open the Cookridge Hall Golf and Country Club on Cookridge Lane in September 1997, watched by Leeds Rhinos' players. Photo: Linda Middleton
4. Leeds in 1997
Rawdon AFC beat Westfield 9-1 in the Wharfedale Triangle League in January 1997. Pictured are five of the six players made the scoresheet, from left, Lee Poole(2), Craig Thornton, Martin Gilks, Stuart Clarke and Dave Gilks (3). Photo: Steve Riding
5. Leeds in 1997
Leslie Silver, foreground, with friends and colleagues, celebrating the 50th anniversary for Kalon Group plc, at Oulton Hall in April 1997. Photo: Dan Oxtoby
6. Leeds in 1997
A bird eye's view of Headingley Cricket Ground during the 1997 England v Australia Test. Photo: Peter Thacker