They provide a fascinating insight into how a city came together with a sense of festive spirit in a decade which featured Rubik's Cube, Masters of the Universe, Glow Worm, Cabbage Patch Kids, Transformers and the Nintendo Entertainment System among the 'must have' presents. Singles which made it to the top of the Christmas charts included Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners (1982), Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? (1984), Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley (1987) and Ride On Time" by Black Box (1989). Raise a Babycham and enjoy this trip down memory lane. READ MORE: Memorable Leeds Christmas Lights switch-on nights LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Leeds at Christmas
Christmas 1985 and festive generosity was guaranteed to bring city centre buskers out in force to fill the bustling streets with music ranging from rock to the classics. Pictured Andrew Wilson (keyboards) and David Smith (sax) entertain shoppers on Commercial Street.
8. Leeds city centre
Father Christmas arrives aboard a 1920 Fowler showman's engine at department store Schofields in 1986. | YPN Photo: YPN
9. Chapeltown
Christmas 1985 and these singers with their sights on stardom performed in a festive charity show to help young people in Chapeltown. The girls - who called themselves Silk Cut - are Carol Beckles, Eileen Morton and Erma Norford. | YPN Photo: YPN
10. Seacroft
Christmas 1989 and staff at the Nursery Equipment Repair Scheme were making hundreds of crafted wooden toys which will be sold at bargain prices to low income families in Leeds. | YPN Photo: YPN
11. Leeds
1981 and Lyndsey Barron, left, and Emma Sutcliffe, who play fairy dolls in their school's Christmas concert, look just a little bewildered by the whole thing as they take part in rehearsals. | YPN Photo: YPN
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Share your memories of Christmas in Leeds during the 1980s with Andrew Hutchinson vai email at: [email protected] or tweet him - @AndyHutchYPN | YPN Photo: YPN