The Crescent Social Club, formerly the Crescent Cinema, at the junction of Dewsbury Road and Parkside Lane, was a spot for the community to come together and unwind in the 1970s. This photo is one of 14 charting memories around LS11 during the decade. Cross Flatts Park and Malvern Picture Palace are also in focus during a time of social and economic change and challenges for the suburb and beyond. READ MORE: 19 glorious photos take you back to Beeston in the 1980s LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Beeston in the 1970s
This photo from June 1973 shows the rear entrances and yards of one storey through terraced properties on Cambrian Road. Located in each yard is an outside toilet. In the foreground is St Luke's Road. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
8. Beeston in the 1970s
A row of double fronted back-to-back terraced houses on St Luke's Terrace with cellars. On the left of number 9 is a shared outside toilet yard. Pictured in June 1973. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
9. Beeston in the 1970s
St Luke's School at the corner of St Luke's Grove, left, and Back Malvern Road, right, in June 1973. Clothes hang on a line stretched across St Luke's Grove. The word Infants is spelled out in stone on the Back Malvern Road side of the building showing this to be the infants section of the school. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
10. Beeston in the 1970s
A row of three double fronted back-to-back terraced houses on St Luke's Avenue flanked by shared outside toilet yards. A woman outside number 12 hangs clothes on a line stretched across the street. Pictured in June 1973. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
11. Beeston in the 1970s
Labour party workers Councillor Alec Beevers and his wife enjoy a cup of tea in the sunshine outside the Labour committee room on Barkly Road in June 1970. They had been on duty since 7am. | YPN Photo: YPN
12. Beeston in the 1970s
The Malvern Cinema on Beeston Hill which closed in august 1971 after 60 years. | YPN Photo: YPN