The images feature fantastic memories of the many shops which thrived in LS12 during the decade. They reveal how shopping local was part of people's everyday routine with a vast array of different retail offerings on the doorstep of the community. They range from corner shops, fish and chips, butchers and greengrocers through to the Co-op, second hand furniture and the Post Office. How many of these shops do you remember? They are published courtesy of Eric Jaquier and West Yorkshire Archive Service, which collects and looks after the unique documentary heritage of the region dating from the 12th century to the present day - more than 800 years of local history. It also runs Catablogue, an online blog dedicated to preserving the past, serving the present and protecting the future. READ MORE: Memories of lost Leeds pubs in Armley, Wortley and Farnley LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia

7. Tong Road in the 1960s
June 1965. Moorfield Cleaners and Eunice Hirst's ladies and childrenswear are both featured. Two women chat outside Mills Hair Fashions. On the right is Simpkin and Young, radio and television engineers. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service

8. Tong Road in the 1960s
The Armley branch of the Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society Ltd in June 1965. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service

9. Tong Road in the 1960s
A blackboard with a chalked price list hangs next to the door of a second hand furniture shop. Next is Fred Brown's off-license and tobacconists. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service

10. Tong Road in the 1960s
June 1965. Shops in view include Simpkin and Young, radio and television engineers and R & S.E. Bruce's confectioners and tobacconists. Jars of sweets line the shop windows. This shop was also a private lending library. Next is a chemists then Bosomworth's furnishers. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service

11. Tong Road in the 1960s
September 1966 and Main Road can be seen on the left edge of this view of Tong Road. On the corner is a grocers business of B.M. Newman. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service

12. Tong Road in the 1960s
September 1966 and on the corner of Tong Road with a fish and chip shop seen towards the right. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service


