Photos capture Roundhay Park frozen in time

Both images show how Leeds was gripped by an arctic blast of snow and ice in 1958

The first image shows a frozen Waterloo Lake in Roundhay Park. Scores of people went on the ice in a scene from a Lowry painting.

It is published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. They also run heritage blog The Secret Library Leeds, which provides a behind the scenes look at the Central Library and highlights from its special collections, including rare books hidden away in the stacks.

The second photo is plucked from the YEP archive and shows children sledging in Roundhay Park in January 1958.

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