The Green Man pub, Crown Bottle Works, Bewerley Street Infants School and Mineral Water Works are all featured in this collection celebrating a year in the life of the suburb in 1964. Well travelled streets in the heart of the community also take centre stage – from Hunslet Hall Road and Lady Pit Lane through to Jack Lane and Disraeli Terrace. The images are published courtesy of West Yorkshire Archive Service, which collects and looks after the unique documentary heritage of the region dating from the 12th century to the present day - more than 800 years of local history. It also runs Catablogue, an online blog dedicated to preserving the past, serving the present and protecting the future. READ MORE: The story of a quirky Leeds pub LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia

13. Hunslet in 1964
On the left are the back-to-back terraces of Jesmond Terrace separated between numbers 4 and 6 by the yard that was originally built to house the shared outside toilet. On the corner at number 99 is A.G. Reed chemist, a sign above the shop proclaims this a National Health Dispensing chemist and advertisments in the windows promote Ilford and Kodak films, vaseline and hair tonic. The door is | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service

14. Hunslet in 1964
Numbers 6 and 8 Mount Place are on the left. On the far left is a yard originally built to house a shared outside toilet. Outside number 8 a mini van is parked, reg: 2359 DT and a woman is adjusting the height of the washing hanging over the cobbled street on the left. A woman enters number 6 while a young child sits in a coach built pram outside. A street light stands on the corner with Selkirk Street on the right. On the far right number 1 Selborne Street is visible, a grocers. These houses were soon to be demolished and families relocated under a Leeds City Council slum clearance programme. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service

15. Hunslet in 1964
Four back-to-back terraced houses on Mount Place each with a private garden surrounded by walls and hedges and used to house washing lines. The differences in garden shapes and sizes occur because the plot of land used is triangular. On the far left of the image is a yard originally built to house the shared outside toilet. Pictured in September 1964 | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service

16. Hunslet in 1964
Disraeli Terrace and Hunslet Hall Road. A woman crosses the road while just visible on the far right is Moor View Road. Pictured in August 1964. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service

17. Hunslet in 1964
Moorview Garage, automobile and electrical engineers with a sign above the door promoting Cleveland fuel. On the right is the entrance to the yard, obscured by the brick wall on the far right. Visible through the entrance is a petrol pump and a sign above a door stating the building to be a licensed petroleum spirit store. Pictured in August 1964. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service

18. Hunslet in 1964
A back-to-back terraced house on Mount Place with a woman wearing an apron stood in the doorway with a lap dog on a lead facing six young boys in short trousers stood on the pavement. On the left is an enclosed yard while on the right a space between houses gives access to Selborne Street. Pictured in August 1964. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service


