The Merrion Centre opened in the city centre at a cost of £6 million and was described by your Yorkshire Evening Post at the time as the shape of things to come in every big town or city. And work was nearing completion on the Seacroft Civic Centre, the first large scale shopping and civic centre development serving a large area to the outskirts of the city centre. This 10 acre development included shops, offices, restaurants, pubs, banks and car parks, as well as a library, bowling alley and clinic. The year also featured a dramatic rescue, a visit by the Fab Four, and Leeds United in the recording studio. Enjoy these rarely-seen photos, published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, run by Leeds Library & Information Service, and West Yorkshire Archive Service, showcasing 12 months of change. READ MORE: 16 photos to take you back to Leeds in 1959
7. Leeds in 1964
Woodhouse's Blackman Lane with Blenheim Lodge on the left, at the end of Lofthouse Place in November 1964. Next a small park, beyond which Lofthouse Place can be seen. Blenheim Primary School now occupies this site. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
8. Leeds in 1964
Looking across Beeston's Malvern Road to the junction with Algeria Street in July 1964. The shop occupies premises on the corner and sells groceries and 'local grown caulis, cabbages, carrots and peas.' Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
9. Leeds in 1964
The Bachelors on their visit to the new Vallances store on New Market Street in August 1964. They flew into Leeds Bradford Airport from Blackpool where they had been performing for the Summer Season on the Central Pier. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
10. Leeds in 1964
March 1964 and this is Richard Ormesher from Cookridge who was in the news at this time as he was judged to be a jigsaw expert at the age of three. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
11. Leeds in 1964
Harold Wilson MP and Labour opposition leader, addressing an election campaign meeting at Leeds Town Hall in February 1964. Dennis Healey MP for Leeds North East is sitting to the side of him. Labour won the election in the October. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
12. Leeds in 1964
May 1964 and Marjorie Ziff, wife of the chairman of Town Centre Securities Ltd, opens a case with a golden key, containing a cake modelled on the Merrion Centre. Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service