It was the decade more than 10,000 medical records made their way 10 yards across the road to a new home in Meanwood. For two hours doctors went to and fro from their former surgery in an old terrace house to Meanwood Health Centre, a new £500,000 building on Meanwood Road only a minute away. This was the 1980s and this wonderful collection of photos showcases life around the suburb during the decade. Other news stories in focus include the demolition of the Capitol Ballroom and the junction of Tongue Road with the Ring Road being branded “the most dangerous crossroads in Leeds.” These photos have never been seen before having before having been digitised for the first time from the Yorkshire Evening Post archive. READ MORE: The story of a roadside Meanwood curiosity unnoticed by motorists LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Meanwood in the 1980s
Coun Michael Simmons, chairman of Leeds City Council Inner City Sub-Committee with Mary Ludbrook, chairwoman of the Meanwood Urban Valley Farm and Manpower workers at the topping out ceremony of a renovated barn in April 1983. | YPN Photo: YPN
8. Meanwood in the 1980s
Author Fred Casperson, a member of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society and the Thoresby Society, admires the splendour of Meanwood Valley at Smithy Mills in April1987. | YPN Photo: YPN
9. Meanwood in the 1980s
The chairman of Leeds Council Leisure Services Committee, Elizabeth Nash, cuts the tape at the opening of a new visitor centre in the Meanwood Valley in May 1985 watched by the area's countryside warden Philip Thompson. | YPN Photo: YPN
10. Meanwood in the 1980s
The Sugarwell Works, a Grade II listed building, overlooking the Meanwood Beck and the Meanwood Urban Farm, had lain derelict for a number of years when this photo was taken in November 1989. | YPN Photo: YPN
11. Meanwood in the 1980s
March 1989 and a conservationist claimed developers had created a "Suez Canal" in the heart of Meanwood Valley. Michael Pemberton said the channel had spoiled the environment of a natural site off Grove Lane. Land once occupied by a house had been cleared to make way for three blocks of Tay flats. | YPN Photo: YPN
12. Meanwood in the 1980s
Residents woke up to find themselves looking out on new neighbours in March 1983 - seven traveller caravans. The caravans, along with towing cars and trucks, had moved on the old Capitol ballroom car park site by the side of the homes on Green View. Pictured are horrified locals John Harrison and Marlene Ramsden. | YPN Photo: YPN