The city boasted its fair share of cobbled roads down the decades. Cobblestones were used as it allowed a road to be heavily used all year long and prevented the build-up of ruts often found in dirt roads. These photos feature the cobbles of Beeston, Holbeck, Little London, Morley, Woodhouse and Wortley from down the decades. Are they streets you remember? READ MORE: 'Butch and mates' - Do you remember these Leeds children? LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
1. Cobbled streets of Leeds
Woodhouse in 1970. In view is Duxbury Place looking south-west towards the junction with Hawkins Place, leading off to the left, and Livinia Street, continuing up the hill. These cobbled streets of terraced housing were soon to be demolished as part of a major clearance of the area. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
2. Cobbled streets of Leeds
Lvinia Street in Little London looking towards Well Close View in 1970. These cobbled streets of terraced housing were part of a designated clearance area and soon to be demolished. Carlton View now occupies the site. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
3. Cobbled streets of Leeds
The cobbled streets of Beeston's Cemetery Road to Malvern View and St. Luke's vicarage in June 1950. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
4. Cobbled streets of Leeds
This 1950s view shows the cobbled back-to-back terraces of Douro Street in Wortley. Lines are hung with washing extend from houses across the cobbled streets to attach with houses opposite. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
5. Cobbled streets of Leeds
February 1933. The cobbles of Millwright Street at Leylands showing back-to-back terraced houses on the lower end of the south west side of Byron Street awaiting demolition. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
6. Cobbled streets of Leeds
Woodhouse in the 1960s. The cobbled streets of Midgley Terrace looking towards the junction with Midgley View. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net / Robert H. Stead