The suburb whose residents spent the most on booze in the UK was revealed while city drinkers were looking forward to the Ales Around the Aire Beer Festival. This was Leeds in 2004, a year which scaffolding covered Kirkstall Abbey at the start of a multi-million pound programme of conservation and improvements while plans for a new children and maternity hospital for Leeds received the go ahead. City centre stories are also featured in this gallery as well as memories from the suburbs with Harehills, Moortown, Wortley, Pudsey, East End Park and Cookridge in focus. READ MORE: 12 photos take you inside Topshop's Leeds Briggate store in the noughties LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Leeds city centre
Did you visit here back in the day? The Hard Rock Cafe on Albion Street. | Mel Hulme Photo: Mel Hulme
8. Leeds United
On the brink. Your Yorkshire Evening Post exclusively revealed how the Leeds United players were asked to take a cut in wages. | YPN Photo: YPN
9. Leeds city centre
Taxi drivers caused traffic chaos in Leeds staging a go slow protest around the city centre loop road. | Tony Johnson Photo: Tony Johnson
10. Leeds city centre
Protesting lecturers and students marched through the city centre. | Tony Johnson Photo: Tony Johnson
11. Leeds United
The football world mourned the death of Leeds United legend John Charles. | YPN Photo: YPN
12. Burmantofts
Plans for a new children and maternity hospital for Leeds received the go ahead. Pictured is the late Jane Tomlinson who at the time was a radiographer at Leeds General Infirmary. | James Hardisty Photo: James Hardisty