Eagle eyed readers will be able to make out the junction of Cross Gates Ring Road (running from bottom left to mid-right), Cross Gates Road (top left), and Cross Gates Lane (top right), The Regal Cinema is at the junction of the latter two roads from January 1956. It is one of 14 photos showcasing and celebrate a community building for the future and looking to the past. They are published courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service as well as photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. READ MORE: Memories of shopping in Crossgates during 1960s and 1970s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
13. Crossgates in the 1950s
Inside Manston St. James' Church on Church Lane in September 1951. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
14. Crossgates in the 1950s
June 1953 and church officials, including the Bishop of Ripon (centre) are pictured at a ceremony in which the site of an old quarry behind St. James' Church was presented to the church for use by St. James' School as a playing field. The land had been bought by Ralph Horsfall, a former pupil of the school, and given to them for this purpose. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net