Pantomime star Billy Pearce launched Mecca's newest bingo club on Balm Road in Hunslet, an occasion marked with a balloon release by local schoolchildren. This was July 1999, a month that a six-part Channel 4 documentary following a group of single women trying to find love in Leeds was first broadcast. READ MORE: 31 Leeds restaurants you may remember from the 1990s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
7. Leeds city centre
There were puzzled expressions in Victoria Gardens. The Rubik's cube people were in Leeds with the three dimensional problem and this giant version, complete with legs , was used to promote it. | Mark Bickerdike Photo: Mark Bickerdike
8. East Leeds
East Leeds U-8s RL team won the Leeds Youth Games. Back: Brad Langton, Tom Morris, Brandon Hannon, Michael Downey, Jake Normington, Luke Keeligan. Front: Scott Coates, Kingsley Wetherald, Billy Kirby, Nathan West, Aaron Manning. | Peter Thacker Photo: Peter Thacker
9. Chapeltown
It costume fitting time ahead of August's Leeds West Indian Carnival and Ramona Ottley looks cool and colourful. | Keith Lawson Photo: Keith Lawson
10. West Park
Young girls attending the Northern Ballet Theatre's Summer School at the West Park Centre watch as class mates are put through their paces. | Bruce Rollinson Photo: Bruce Rollinson
11. Ilkley
The Royal Mail shelled out £40,000 to save this Victorian postbox on Denton Road after it was damaged by a car. Pictured posting a letter is Stephen Wheelhouse. | James Hardisty Photo: James Hardisty
12. Belle Isle
South Leeds Stadium hosted an festival of Irish dance. Pictured, from left, are Scarlett Walton, Poppy Sargent and Hannah Stapylton. | James Hardisty Photo: James Hardisty