These wonderful photos rewind to the 1970s and reveal Leeds city centre as a great place to work, rest and play. Shopping streets including including Boar Lane, Briggate, Commercial Street and Albion Place take centre stage. Other photos go inside city centre businesses and also include memories from the aftermath of one of Leeds' s biggest ever disasters, when fire all-but destroyed Kirkgate Market. They are published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service as well as Leeds Planning Department and West Yorkshire Archive Service. READ MORE: How Kirkgate Market rose from the ashes in the 1970s 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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Do you remember this amusement arcade on Mill Hill? It is pictured in December 1979. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
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New Briggate in December 1979. On the left is Knobs and Knockers & Heel Bar shoe repairs, with the entrances to William Hill bookmakers and Brandons Club, and Whan Hai Chinese restaurant above. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
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Call Lane Amusement Centre in December 1979 with the Star and Garter pub on the right. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
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Harewood Street at the junction with Sidney Street in December 1979. Harewood Fashions is on the left, with Mannequins in the shop window. Across the road on the right is Clover department store. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
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Briggate in January 1978 featuring John Dyson & Sons, Jewellers and Watchmakers, which has two ornate clocks, one displaying the year 1865 in which the business was founded. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
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Briggate showing the junction with Commercial Street in June 1975. Pictured centre is Manfield footwear; to the left of this is Amber ladieswear, then Trueform footwear and Marks and Spencer. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net