The Vauxhall Maxx was certainly diminutive and proved popular with shoppers when it went on show in Leeds city centre. The three-door, two-seater city car could accelerate to 100 km/h (62 mph) in just 12.1 seconds. This was May 1996, a month which, continuing the motoring theme, saw trading standards officials seize hundreds of bottles of fake motor oil. Elsewhere the Reclaim The Streets movement staged a protest while the first ever CCTV cameras were installed in the city centre. Enjoy these photo memories, plucked from the YEP archive, showcasing 31 days in life of you Leeds in the mid-1990s. READ MORE: Shops you visited on Briggate during the 1990s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
13. Leeds in may 1996
Leeds Met University staged 'Walk This Way' a student fashion show. Pictured are some of the models who took to the catwalk. Photo: Bruce Rollinson
14. Leeds in May 1996
Leslie Robinson, of Temple Newsam House takes the dust covers off the furniture in the Picture Gallery after the completion of a £100,000 refurbishment. Photo: Justin Lloyd
15. Leeds in May 1996
West Yorkshire Trading Standards Service seized fake 500 bottles of fake Castrol GTX motor oil. Pictured is senior principle officer Graham Hebblethwaite with one of fakes alongide the real thing on the left.
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