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
19. Leeds city centre
Duncan Street from Boar Lane, showing the junction with Briggate, taken around the mid 1970s. On the left is Paragon Jewellers with London and Manchester Assurance above. Further along are Alexandre tailors, Rawcliffes clothiers, Zuckers drapers, Duncan tailors and Evans outsize clothes. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
20. Leeds city centre
Duncan Street looking west from the junction with New Market Street. On the left are Frank's Gents Hair Stylist and The Duncan public house. Visible on the right are Evans Outsize Clothes then Holy Trinity Church and C & A further along on Boar Lane. Taken around the mid 1970s. | Leeds Department of Planning Photo: Leeds Department of Planning
21. Leeds city centre
Duncan Street looking west towards Boar Lane, taken during the mid 1970s. On the left is the sign for the Whip public house in Hirst's Yard, the entrance to which is just off the picture. The first shop along is Modern Hairdressing for Men, with HMV Records and Jackson's Tailors further on. Shops on the right include Saxone shoes (advertising Hush Puppies), Modelia ladiewswear and Richard Shops ladieswear, followed by Holy Trinity Church. | Leeds Department of Planning Photo: Leeds Department of Planning
22. Leeds city centre
Boar Lane looking west, seen from Duncan Street with the junction with Briggate on the left. Alexandre menswear is on the corner, with the White Rose Restaurant next to this. On the right are Richard Shops ladieswear and C & A, with Holy Trinity Church out of view in between. Taken during the mid 1970s. | Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
23. Leeds city centre
Boar Lane looking west, taken during the mid 1970s. Shops on the left include Rawcliffe's clothiers (temporary premises while their Duncan Street store is being renovated), Stone-Dri weather wear and Finlay's tobacconists, then after the junction with White Horse Street, the Singer Sewing Machine Co. Ltd., Finigan's ladieswear, Wakefields Army Stores and the White Horse Resturant. On the right are Holy Trinity Church, with two telephone kiosks and a postbox in front, and C & A. | Leeds Department of Planning Photo: Leeds Department of Planning
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