Hundreds would queue up from the small hours to get to the front of the queue as the sales scramble started on Boxing Day in the city centre and beyond. Huge discounts at The Sony Centre on Vicar Lane, M&S on Briggate and Next on Commercial Street prompted a scramble among bargain hunters all keen to make the most of the huge reductions (including buying Christmas cards a year early). Can you spot yourself among the queues and the clothes racks? READ MORE: 34 loved and lost Leeds nightclubs you visited back in the day LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia

7. Boxing Day sales
Bargain hunters at Allders on the first day of Boxing Day sales in December 1996. | Bruce Rollinson Photo: Bruce Rollinson

8. Boxing Day sales
Cut price trainers were proving popular among bargain hunters during the Boxing Day sales in December 1998. | Keith Lawson Photo: Keith Lawson

9. Boxing Day sales
50 per cent off stock meant long queues formed outside Next on Boxing Day in December 1996. | Bruce Rollinson Photo: Bruce Rollinson

10. Boxing Day sales
The Bay Trading Company on Commercial Street were offering reductions of up to 50 per cent. | Mel Hulme Photo: Mel Hulme

11. Boxing Day sales
The clamour to buy next year's Christmas cards in the Boxing Day sales in December 1999. | Mark Bickerdike Photo: Mark Bickerdike

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Share your memories of Boxing Day sales in Leeds during the 1990s with Andrew Hutchinson via email at: [email protected] or tweet him - @AndyHutchYPN | Bruce Rollinson Photo: Bruce Rollinson


