Actor Larry Hagman who played JR in hit American show Dallas stopped off at the Owlcotes Centre to sign copies of his book. This was 2001, a 12 months in which staff and pupils at Crawshaw High were left devastated after a blaze ripped through part of the school. Your YEP reported how within two months the school community had bounced back. Elsewhere a campaign for a pedestrian crossing in the town proved successful while a councillor was calling for an area of Thornbury in the Pudsey district, to have a Leeds postcode rather a Bradford one. And community spirit burned bright thanks to the annual Pudsey Carnival. READ MORE: Memories of lost Leeds pubs in Pudsey and Stanningley LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
13. Pudsey in 2001
Julie Limeburn examines pictures by members of Pudsey Senior Citizens Art Club at Pudsey Library in November 2001. | Helen Gardner Photo: Helen Gardner
14. Pudsey in 2001
Campaigner Jean Thompson was celebrating the installation of a pedestrian crossing at Lowtown. | YPN Photo: YPN
15. Pudsey in 2001
November 2001 and pictured is secretary Terry Wetherald with some of the exhibits on display at the Pudsey Allotment Association's annual late flowering Chrysanthemum show. | Helen Gardner Photo: Helen Gardner
16. Pudsey in 2001
August 2001 and Councillor Frank Robinson was campaigning for an area of Thornbury in the Pudsey district, to have a Leeds postcode rather a Bradford one. | YPN Photo: YPN
17. Pudsey in 2001
May 2001 and children are pictured on the Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus (ASBAH) float at Pudsey Carnival. | YPN Photo: YPN
18. Pudsey in 2001
May 2001 and pictured is Diane Layton, Adam Hobson and Debra Rose of TFB's cafe bar in Pudsey. | Justin Lloyd Photo: Justin Lloyd