Leeds residents have set out to break Guinness World Records all the time. Some are successful, many more are not. These memories range from the sublime to the ridiculous and feature everything from zombies and Scalextric though to counting to ten in Japanese in the shortest amount of time.
7. Record breaking attempts
Leeds students took part in an ultimate frisbee world record attempt in June 2005. Photo: Steve Riding
8. Record breaking attempts
People sing Christmas carols at South Leeds Stadium in November 2004 in an to attempt the world record. But unfortunately with the low turn out of only 258 people as the empty seats show, the attempt was unsuccessful. Photo: Emma Nichols
9. Record breaking attempts
A world record tea dancing attempt at St Gemma's Hospice in September 2005. Photo: Dan Oxtoby
10. Record breaking attempts
February 2005 and Matthew Davenport set a Guinness world record for the distance covered on a water slide in a 24 hour period. Photo: Tony Johnson
11. Record breaking attempts
Florrie Baldwin, a resident at the Radcliffe Nursing Home in Pudsey, celebrated her 111th birthday and being the oldest living woman in the UK in March 2007. She is pictured receiving her Guinness World Record certificate by editor-in-chief Craig Glenday and the Lord Mayor of Leeds Mohammed Iqbal. Photo: James Hardisty
12. Record breaking attempts
Stefan Kantchechurian warms up for his world record attempt on the world drumming record in the laboratory at Leeds University's electronics and electrical engineering department in August 2005. Photo: Gary Longbottom