For many the turning on of the festive lights in their town or village across the city heralds the start of the Christmas festivities. These photos, plucked from the YEP archive, also focus on switch ons at shopping centres as well as satellite communities outside the LS postcode. READ MORE: The Leeds babies born on Christmas Day during the 1990s and 2000s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
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Share your memories of Christmas lights switch-ons across Leeds during the 1990s with Andrew Hutchinson via email at [email protected] or tweet him - @AndyHutchYPN | Steve Riding Photo: Steve Riding
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Five-year-old Keiron Smith with her grandmother Mrs Jennifer Todd of Morley who bid for Children In Need for her grandchild to switch the lights on in November 1997. | Steve Riding Photo: Steve Riding