14 hardworking photos celebrate Leeds trade and industry in the 1970s

These hardworking photos celebrate Leeds’s trade and industry during the 1970s.

The gallery, powered by the YEP archive, takes you inside factories as well as outside the headquarters of a number of well known firms who employed a local workforce to manufacture goods and services to sell at home and abroad. READ MORE: Unseen photos chart of a golden age of Leeds pub culture LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia

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