It brings together a host of festive traditions to showcase how Leeds celebrated Christmas in the 1960s. Christmas decorations, carol singing, shopping scenes and fundraising appeals are all featured in this trip down memory lane. The images are a mix from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of the West Yorkshire Archive Service, David Atkinson Archive and photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. READ MORE: The babies born on Christmas Day in Leeds during the 1990s and 2000s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
13. Christmas in Leeds
It was the custom of the Men's Class at Morley Friends' Adult School to raise some money for the upkeep of the building by going to member's houses on Christmas Day morning singing carols. Many of the houses were around the Clough Street area where a substantial number of members lived. After they changed location the new houses had to be fitted in. This photo from December 1961 shows the Men's Class singing outside a house on Little Fountain Street (round the back of a back-to-back) which has since been cleared in the slum clearance programme. Photo: David Atkinson Archive
14. Christmas in Leeds
A Christmas window decoration at the Yorkshire Electricity Board building on Queen Street in Morley in December 1960. Photo: David Atkinson Archive
15. Christmas in Leeds
Christmas decorations in Scarth Gardens, Scatcherd Park, Scatcherd Hill and on Morley Town Hall taken just after dusk in December 1966. Photo: David Atkinson Archive
16. Christmas in Leeds
A snow-covered Richmond Mount taken at Christmas 1969. The view looks south towards Stott Road with Raven Road cutting across the middle. Odd-numbered houses are on the left and even-numbered on the right. A church seen in the far distance is possibly St. Bartholomew's at Armley. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
17. Christmas in Leeds
Leeds, Horsforth, 3rd December 1968 Horsforth Townswomen's Guild bought and dressed a consignment of dolls in December 1968 for the Yorkshire Evening Post Christmas Fund. A display of the dolls helped to brighten the scene at the Mechanic's Institute, Horsforth, where the branch held its annual birthday party - the 22nd annual celebration. Pictured here with the array of four dozen dolls provided and dressed by members are four of the guild's officers, from left, Mrs. D. Midgley (ex-president), Mrs. M. Laurie (president), Mrs. L. Allen (immediate past chairman) and Mrs. M. Dibb (chairman). The branch organises a different charity effort each year and this time it was the Evening Post Christmas Fund which benefitted. Photo: YPN
18. Christmas in Leeds
Inside the Church of St. Francis of Assisi, the first specifically built Roman Catholic Church in Morley, with entrances from Corporation Street and Westfield Road in December 1966. This photograph shows some Christmas decoration, e.g. the crib of the scene in the stable at the birth of Jesus. Photo: David Atkinson Archive