The city has undergone some huge changes in the last twenty years. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos take you back to Wakey in 2001, a year which featured a fight for Super League survival, art installations, and new bar openings. READ MORE: Go inside Club Barcelona - The Birstall nightclub which bused in revellers from Leeds LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join the Leeds Retro facebook group
1. February 2001
Text phone messages were projected onto the Wakefield Cathedral precinct by artists Lulu Quinn and Julie Westerman. | jpimedia Photo: Gerald Binks
2. February 2001
A new lighting scheme - the work of artist and lighting expert Charles Quick - was switched on at Wakefield Museum. | jpimedia
3. March 2001
Ken Westmoorland cleaning the streets of Wakefield at 5am while most people were still in bed. | jpimedia
4. April 2001
Wakefield Cougars captain Alex Judson kisses the Yorkshire Silver Trophy after his side beat Marist RUFC in the final. | jpimedia
5. June 2001
Owzat! Wakefield St Michaels batter Mark Boycott is clean bowled by Birstall's Nayeem Rao. | jpimedia
6. August 2001
Julie Sataria planned to serving oxygen with pints at her new bar when her new bar on Lower York Street. | jpimedia