Your city has undergone some huge changes in the last 45 years. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos take you back to Leeds in 1975, a year who provided doses of disappointment and despair in equal measure. Leeds United' s dream of winning the European Cup ended in Paris while the city experienced one of its biggest ever disasters after Kirkgate Market was all but destroyed by fire. READ MORE: Paris 1975 - The night Leeds United were ‘robbed’ of European Cup glory | The night Kirkgate Market was devastated by fire LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook

19. Leeds city centre
Members of Leeds University Sadler Hall Folk Group were preparing to fly to Sicily to represent England in a folk dance festival in January 1975. | YPN Photo: YPN

20. Harehills
November 1975 and work was all but completed on a pedestrian bridge built over the Harehills Lane - York Road junction. | YPN Photo: YPN

21. Leeds city centre
Life on a ward at Leeds General Infirmary in January 1975. | YPN Photo: YPN



24. Seacroft
February 1975 and owners of this shop on York Road were complaining about muddy conditions. | YPN Photo: YPN

