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
7. Leeds in 1997
Shoppers at the White Rose Shopping Centre which opened to the public for the first time in March 1997. Photo: Mark Bickerdike
8. Leeds in 1997
Did you enjoy a drink here back min the day? The Victoria Family and Commercial Hotel on Great George Street was celebrating a refurbishment in May 1997. Photo: Mark Bickerdike
9. Leeds in 1997
David Bowie on stage at the Town and Country Club in August 1997. Photo: Mark Bickerdike
10. Leeds in 1997
Some of the colourfully dressed participants at the Leeds West Indian Carnival at Potternewton Park in August 1997, talking to the Lord Mayor of Leeds, Councillor Linda Middleton. This colourful spectacle of costumes, music and dance of Caribbean origin is the oldest West Indian carnival in the country, having taken place at the August Bank Holiday every year since 1967, and it is second only to Notting Hill in size. Photo: Linda Middleton
11. Leeds in 1997
Spring in the air.... as the flowering crocus burst into bloom in front of Temple Newsam House in March 1997. Photo: Gary Longbottom
12. Leeds in 1997
Were you dancing the night away here back in the day? The Majestyk pictured in April 1997. Photo: Dan Oxtoby