These fantastic photos showcase life around Morley in the 1980s. The collection was lost to the world until being found in the Yorkshire Evening Post archive and scanned. They feature shopping memories as well as restaurants and pubs around the town which will be remembered by a generation of those who called the town home during the decade. The gallery also features details of new stories which were making the local headlines including a couple who were fighting a smear campaign over the £50,000 asking price for their 20 room mansion - which they bought from Leeds City Council for the knock-down price of £3,000. Foreman mechanic Jack Dixon and his wife Lillian bought Morley Hall - a listed building - for the nominal sum after the council had allowed it to become a vandalised hulk. READ MORE: Memories of lost Leeds pubs in Morley, Gildersome, Churwell and Drighlington LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
26. Morley in the 1980s
White's newsagents shop and The Pizza Box next door. Pictured in November 1988. | YPN Photo: YPN
27. Morley in the 1980s
Carr of Morley, a well known and respected motor dealer with a history going back to the 1930s had taken on the Seat franchise. Pictured in February 1989. | YPN Photo: YPN
28. Morley in the 1980s
Do you remember Roger and Jenny Swift? They ran The Needless Inn. The couple are pictured in 1987. | YPN Photo: YPN
29. Morley in the 1980s
Wellfield House, the headquarters of IEI, showing the house and the new extension. Pictured in September 1989. | YPN Photo: YPN
30. Morley in the 1980s
February 1980 and architect Richard Day and his family were making home in an 85-year-old Methodist Chapel on Howden Clough Road. | YPN Photo: YPN