Changing Leeds - Go inside Bond Street Shopping Centre during the 1990s

With its Space Age design, plush interior and moving walkways it helped modernise the city centre shopping experience.

By Andrew Hutchinson

Published 15th Apr 2020, 06:00 GMT

Updated 11th May 2020, 08:12 GMT

Bond Street Shopping Centre opened in the summer of 1977 and boasted 30 shops including big names brands such as BHS and Mothercare. These photos turn back the clock to a time when shopping was a pursuit enjoyed exclusively on foot rather than online. READ MORE: Go inside the two city shopping arcades that made way for Trinity Leeds | Go inside the Corn Exchange during the 1990s and 2000s | 12 things you don’t see in Leeds city centre anymore that you could a decade ago LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook

1. Bond Street Shopping Centre

In the beginning. This is a view of the site when building work started in January 1975.

This is a view of the Centre, pictured in August 1977, ahead of it opening to the public.

One moving staircase going up, another moving staircase coming down. The escalators on Boar Lane, pictured in November 1980.

Is this the Bond Street Shopping Centre you remember? Pictured here in October 1978.

The Centre's dream clean team pictured in October 1978.

Did you shop here - at Dolcis - pictured in October 1978?