The Merrion Centre opened in the city centre at a cost of £6 million and was described by your Yorkshire Evening Post at the time as the shape of things to come in every big town or city. And work was nearing completion on the Seacroft Civic Centre, the first large scale shopping and civic centre development serving a large area to the outskirts of the city centre. This 10 acre development included shops, offices, restaurants, pubs, banks and car parks, as well as a library, bowling alley and clinic. The year also featured a dramatic rescue, a visit by the Fab Four, and Leeds United in the recording studio. These images are from West Yorkshire Archive Service and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. READ MORE: 26 rarely-seen photos take you around the city's suburbs in the 1960s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Seacroft
June 1964 and pictured is Seacroft Civic Centre, the first large scale shopping and civic centre development serving a large area of east Leeds. | YPN Photo: YPN
8. Beeston
Corner terraced houses on Acton Street at the junction with Kiln Street in July 1964. The shop is licensed to sell groceries. It is on Kiln Street at number 20. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
9. Woodhouse
Blackman Lane with Blenheim Lodge on the left, at the end of Lofthouse Place in November 1964. Next a small park, beyond which Lofthouse Place can be seen. Blenheim Primary School now occupies this site. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
10. Beestpn
Looking across Malvern Road to the junction with Algeria Street in July 1964. The shop occupies premises on the corner and sells groceries and 'local grown caulis, cabbages, carrots and peas.' | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
11. Leeds city centre
The Bachelors on their visit to the new Vallances store on New Market Street in August 1964. They flew into Leeds Bradford Airport from Blackpool where they had been performing for the Summer Season on the Central Pier. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
12. Cookridge
March 1964 and this is Richard Ormesher from Cookridge who was in the news at this time as he was judged to be a jigsaw expert at the age of three. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service