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

13. Leeds trade and industry
The factory of tailors John Temple on the Ring Road at Seacroft in February 1976. Photo: YPN

14. Leeds trade and industry
The laboratory and office complex of the Wool Industries Research Association (WIRA) - the technical centre for the British textile industry - pictured in June 1977. | YPN Photo: YPN

15. Enjoyed this gallery?
Share your memories of trade and industry around Leeds in the 1970s with Andrew Hutchinson via email at: [email protected] or tweet him - @AndyHutchYPN | YPN Photo: YPN


