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Residents came together on Headingley Terrace to celebrate its 150 years of the street being built with locals dressing up in Victorian costumes to mark the occasion. This was Leeds in July 1997, a month which featured a very muddy Opera in the Park at Temple Newsam Park and a newly-installed 'unsittable seat' proved a talking point among passers-by in the city centre. Enjoy these photo memories, plucked from the YEP archive charting 31 days in the life of your city. READ MORE:23 photo memories of Headingley in the 1990sLOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA?Join Leeds Retro on facebook
13. Leeds in July 1997
Harvey Nichols personal shopper Jill McManaman (right) chooses a jacket for Dorothy Shipley, in the Leeds store. Photo: Dan Oxtoby
Dickie Bird celebrated his honorary degree at Leeds University with an impromptu cricket match with the staff and students from the University cricket team. Photo: Gary Longbottom