They turn back the clock to 1998 and showcase life around the city during a 12 months which featured a well-known estate agent starting to sell houses via the internet and a thriving supermarket which served students in LS2 was facing an uncertain future. Elsewhere a decorator was aiming to paint a village white. A Leeds United superfan was offering a discount for the removal of red paint. This gallery of memories features city centre landmarks before heading out to the city suburbs with Morlkey, Otley, Harhills and Meanwood all in focus. READ MORE: The story of a quirky Leeds pub LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia

13. Headingley
Looking up Churchwood Avenue from the junction with Otley Road. To the right of the road are the Headingley Water Treatment Works, the site of which has since been redeveloped as housing. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net

14. Morley
Queen Street showing the green and cream painted Morley Market at the junction with Hope Street in November 1998. | David Atkinson Archive Photo: David Atkinson Archive

15. Leeds University
Leeds University Art students next to the beach in Scarborough in May 1998. They claimed they had blown a £1,000 grant meant to fund a degree exhibition on a week of fun in the sun in Spain before revealing it was all a hoax and they had actually gone to Scarborough. PIC: Paul Barker/PA | Paul Barker Photo: Paul Barker

16. Harehills
The Fforde Green pub pictured in November 1998. | Keith Lawson Photo: Keith Lawson

17. Leeds city centre
Cafe culture was proving popular. Pictured is Indie Joze inside the Victoria Quarter. | Peter Thacker Photo: Peter Thacker

18. Leeds United
New signing David Batty, is interviewed by local television during a press conference to announce his return to Leeds United in December 1998. | Mike Cowling Photo: Mike Cowling


