Enjoy these photo memories from Boxing Day sales in Leeds during the 1990s. PIC: Mel Hulmeplaceholder image
Enjoy these photo memories from Boxing Day sales in Leeds during the 1990s. PIC: Mel Hulme | Mel Hulme

Leeds city centre shops you visited for the Boxing Day sales in the 1990s

It was the early risers who bagged the bargains.

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

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