It was a decade which featured a city education system struggling to cope with crumbling buildings, overcrowding, and freezing classrooms. These photos focus on schools - both primary and secondary - as well as colleges across Leeds who were making the news headlines at the time. Is your school or college featured from back in the day? READ MORE: 31 Leeds pubs we have loved and lost LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
19. Leeds Free School
Pupils reading comics at Leeds Free School in February 1973. | YPN Photo: YPN
20. Leeds Grammar School
Speech day at Leeds Grammar School in October 1973. Pictured, from left, Martin Francis, Geoffrey Bellamy, Chotai Sanjay, Robert Brakewell, Jonathan Harcourt, Bob Nowill, Peter Levine and Ian Bosley. | YPN Photo: YPN
21. St. Hilda's C of E Primary
Children on the playground at St. Hilda's C of E Primary School on Cross Green Lane in February 1974. | YPN Photo: YPN
22. Deepdale Infants' School
Another shivering winter faced pupils at Deepdale Infants' School, a 30 year old "temporary built" school in Boston Spa, in October 1974. The parents' action group had drawn up a petition pressing for more urgent action from Leeds Education Committee and the Department of Education in finding a replacement for the flimsily built school. | YPN Photo: YPN
23. Castleton Primary
One of the crowded classrooms at Castleton Primary School in January 1974. Paint is peeling from the walls. | YPN Photo: YPN
24. Armley Church of England Primary
A teacher gives instruction in one of the classrooms heated by an open fire at Armley Church of England Primary on Wesley Road in January 1974. | YPN Photo: YPN