This gallery charting a decade in the life of Richmond Hill in the 1960s features youngsters using a derelict house as a playground. The photos also feature corner shops, off-licences as well as well travelled streets at the heart of the community including Pontefract Lane. The images are a mix from West Yorkshire Archive Service and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. READ MORE: Memories of lost Leeds pubs in Richmond Hill, Burmantofts, Cross Green and East End Park LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook YEP RETRO NEWSLETTER: Sign up for our free monthly email digest of Leeds nostalgia
7. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
A row of four back-to-back terraced houses with cellars on Temple View Place in July 1963. On the left is Everleigh Street and on the right is a shared outside toilet block. Coach built prams stand outside numbers 96 and 98 on the left, watched over by a woman on the doorstep of number 96. Another woman stands looking out from the doorstep of number 92 on the right. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
8. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
On the left at number 29 Temple View Road is a newsagents, sweets, groceries and tobacconists store run by G. Martin. Products advertised include: Cardinal polish, Capstan, Cadets, Wills Woodbines and Senior Service cigarettes. Also promoted is the 'Great New Crime Series: The Avenger' in The News of the World newspaper. On the right are numbers 7 to 11 Balkan Terrace, a row of back-to-back terraced houses seperated between numbers 1 to 9 by a shared outside toilet block. A woman sits on the doorstep of number 7. Pictured in July 1963. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
9. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
August 1950 and this photo shows number 3 Temple View Grove next to a derelict number 22 Chantrell Street. The front door to number 3 is open and a boy and a girl look at the camera from inside. Sandbags are piled up outside the house. Advertisements for Wisk washing powder and "our Gracie sings again" are visible on the side of number 22. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
10. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
A row of back-to-back terraced houses on Temple View Terrace with warehouse buildings on the left and a shared outside toilet block on the right. A man and a woman are stood outside number 87 while children play on tricycles on the right. Pictured in July 1963. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
11. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
An off-licence on Temple View Grove in July 1963. On the right are numbers 2 and 4 Balkan Grove, two back-to-back terraced houses with a shared outside toilet block on the right. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service
12. Richmond Hill in the 1960s
Two boys stand with a child's pram at the corner of Temple View Place and Temple View Road in July 1963. | West Yorkshire Archive Service Photo: West Yorkshire Archive Service