The city's high rise tower blocks are very much part of the fabric and heritage of Leeds and have been home to generations of dwellers. These rarely-seen photos taken from the YEP archive provide a snapshot of life around tower blocks with Little London, Wortley, Bramley, Burmantofts, Seacroft and Cottingley all in focus. Is your tower block featured? READ MORE: 28 of the best photos chart the rise and fall of Hunslet's Leek Street Flats LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
13. Seacroft
Surrounded by scaffolding, the Queensview flats pictured in November 1974. | YPN Photo: YPN
14. West Park
January 1989 and immediate tests were being carried out on eight blocks of Leeds flats similar to this one - Clayton Grange - after masonry came tumbling down. | YPN Photo: YPN
15. Wortley
Residents of the 16-storey Clyde Grange were operating their own night security system in September 1996. Ground floor tenant took turns to sit out a midnight to 6am shift in the flats' lobby to watch for arsonists and vandals. | YPN Photo: YPN
16. Burmantofts
Do you recognise here? This is Lincoln Towers pictured in the mid-1970s. | YPN Photo: YPN
18. Burmantofts
Residents of Shakespeare Court walk past the eyesore outside their flats near Beckett Street in April 1972. | YPN Photo: YPN