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Memories

Shops on Street Lane pictured in August 1935. To the left no 39, at the junction with Shaftesbury Avenue ending with No 71 on the right. This is a bakers shop, business of Miss Florence Gadsby.

15 photos take you back to Roundhay in the 1930s

Burley Liberal Club on Burley Road, at the corner with Roberts Place pictured in October 1959. When this club was demolished a replacement was built at the corner of Burley Road and Willow Road.

15 brilliant photos take you back to Burley in the 1950s

Young mum Wendy Thorne cuddles her eight week old son at a squatter home near Armley Jail in November 1984 as a Home Office official knocked on the front door, The official had come from London to ask the squatters to leave Home Office property after the residents of Elsworth Street demanded their eviction - but they refused.

16 photos take you back to Armley in the 1980s

Enjoy these memories from V97. PIC: Mark Bickerdike

V97: Memories of a festival to remember

Enjoy these photo memories of Headingley in the 1980s. PIC: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net

Memories of Headingley in the 1980s

Former pop star presents the top 15 flashbacks in fashion

Tram 534 pictured on Wellington Street on route 534 to Cross Gates. Number 42 bus to Lower Wortley can also be seen. Pictured in September  1954.

14 nostalgic photos take you back to the city centre in 1954

These are the top 20 Christmas mishaps

Boy scouts on parade on Marsh Street pictured in April 1944. The occasion was the visit of HRH Princess Royal on 'Salute the Soldier Week'

Photos take you back to wartime Rothwell in the 1940s

Enjoy these photo memories from around Burmantofts in the 1960s. PIC: YPN

Photo gems of Burmantofts in the 1960s

Enjoy these photo memories charting a year in the life of your city centre. PIC: Matthew Page

21 of the best photos take you back to 2007

On the left edge of this view from  May 1965 is the single front of number 4 Strawberry Lane. Two shops on Tong Road follow to right, with a Dutch gable style roof above the top two windows. To the left, painted white, is number 170, a second hand furniture shop with a selection of cupboards outside. A blackboard with a chalked price list hangs next to the door. On the side wall is a billboard advertising salad cream with the slogan 'Heinz of course'. Number 168 follows to the right. This is Fred Brown's off-license and tobacconists.

16 ace photos take you back to Armley in 1965

A view down Kirkstall Road in March 1975.

Life on Kirkstall Road in the 1970s and 1980s

Lower Town Street showing the entrance to Patchett's Place, right. The two shop properties are, left, William Lax, Newsagent, at number 162 and right, Busy 'B' Ltd, Butchers, at number 160. Number 162 had been the location of Bramley Post Office since 1854. In 1892 Mr. J.W. Dawson took over the position of Post-master from his father and by the turn of the century it had become a thriving business. In 1902 600,000 letters were delivered and 7,000 telegrams and there was a turnover of £20,000. 8 postmen were making 3 daily deliveries in Bramley from this office. In the photograph parked in front of the Busy 'B' is the errand boy's bicycle with its large basket at the front for delivering the meat orders to homes within the community.

14 photos showcase life around Bramley in 1960

Burley Lawn Council School surrounded by wall and iron railings at junction of houses on either side of the road. Tradesign 'R. Blackburn & Son Contractors for Painting, Limewashing, Roof light cleaning, Mills, Engineering works, Boot factories, Warehouses, Garages' on the wall at the end of Poplar Street. Fitton Stores and Post office with post box outside. Burley hotel is on the corner of Willow Road, with Leeds Skyrack and Morley savings bank on the other corner.

Evocative photos turn the spotlight on Burley in the 1930s

A view of air raid wardens post on south side looking east along Ley Lane. View towards city centre in background. Pictured in September 1945.

12 photo memories take you back to Armley in the 1940s

Enjoy these photo memories from the day two city landmarks came crashing down.

The day two city landmarks were demolished with dynamite

The Regal Super Cinema at number 40 Cross Gates Road pictured in January 1943 which at the time was showing the film The Corsican Bros starring Douglas Fairbanks Junior and Ruth Warwick. The Regal could seat 1,500 people and had the largest theatre car park in the country at that time with parking for 400 vehicles. It closed in 1964.

Photo gems showcase Crossgates landmarks in the 1940s

The Melbourne Hotel public house in the process of demolition during the 1980s. This watering hole was at the junction of York Road and Foundry Lane.

Memories of boozers you may remember in LS14

Danny Freeman. PIC: Justin Lloyd

15 photos take you back to the city centre in 1998

The Albion Hotel, a Samuel Smith's public house, on Buslingthorpe Lane in July 1958. The view looks towards the Sheepscar Street/Scott Hall Road junction.

14 photo gems take you back to Sheepscar in the 1950s

2,000 boys from schools around Leeds give a display of exercise routines at Children's Day in 1939.

Photo gems showcase Roundhay Park in the 1930s

Enjoy this gallery of memories of lost Leeds city centre pubs.

Memories of lost city centre pubs

The former Toll House on Stanningley Road pictured in October 1927.

Photo gems put the ace into 1920s Armley

Enjoy these photo memories of Leeds City Transport's social centre.

Memories of Leeds City Transport's staff restaurant and social centre

Dad had to pay £3k and drive 1,102 miles due to Brexit passport rule

The White Stag on Whitelock Street. Pictured is landlady Betty Timony in 1997. The pub closed in 2008.

Memories of lost Leeds pubs in LS7

The one-bedroom luxury apartment in the former headquarters of Cadbury's in Bournville Lane, Birmingham, is on the market for 145,000

Cadbury brings back fan-favourite chocolate after nearly 10 years

St James Street looking north in August 1913. On the left at number 74a is St James tavern with the empty premises of Charles Thomas, former dining rooms at 72. Oxford hand laundry (prop: Mrs Porritt) can be seen to centre of photograph at 72. Children stand on cobbled road.

Charming photos take you back to 1913

Green Lane looking south, showing the junctions with (from right) Hall Lane, Hawthorn Grove, Hawthorn Avenue, First Avenue and Second Avenue. A corner shop on the right (no. 21 Green Lane) displays an advertisement for Rhinds Radio and Television dealers of Tong Road on the wall. Three women are crossing the road, another is walking along the causeway on the right and a small boy is looking in the shop window. A tower block, probably Wortley Towers, is under construction in the background.

Wortley in the 1960s: Photo gems put shops and cafes in focus

Enjoy these photo memories of the Old Hall Hotel.

Old Hall Hotel: Memories of a lost city centre pub

Enjoy this gallery charting Ringtons links to Leeds.

Memories of the tea and coffee empire with links to your city

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Jonnie Irwin shares beautiful moment of family bike ride

Stuart Broad of England celebrates winning the Ashes during day three of the 4th Investec Ashes Test match between England and Australia at Trent Bridge on August 8, 2015 in Nottingham, United Kingdom. (Photo by Laurence Griffiths/Getty Images)

Stuart Broad retires- and England fans have been lucky to have him

A view of a site off Chapeltown Road where terraced housing has been demolished as part of the slum clearance of the area.

Memories of the streets that now have no name

The Brunswick Hotel, a Melbourne Ales owned pub on Oak Road. The landlord in June 1961 was Jack Baxter. The pub was replaced with a new road and houses after redevelopment.

Photos take you back to Wortley in 1961

Children stand outside property adjoining no.14 Woodhouse Cliff in June 1913.

Photos capture an age of innocence against a backdrop of war

FAREWELL MESSAGE: From outgoing Leeds United midfielder Adam Forshaw, above. Photo by Bradley Kanaris/Getty Images.

Adam Forshaw issues Leeds United departure message and Whites wish

Western Talkie cinema in January 1937. It originally opened as the Pictureland cinema on April 25, 1910 and had been converted from a Primitive Methodist Chapel, owned by American Bioscope Co Ltd, taken over by Tommy Thompson and Charles Metcalf in 1910. It seated 439 people. The name changed to Western Talkie in November 1933 and closed on May 26, 1956 to re-open in 1957 as the New Western. It was finally closed on December 30, 1960, after a showing of 'The Unforgiven' starring Burt Lancaster. It was converted to a bingo hall.

Photo gems celebrate life around Armley in the 1930s

The west side of Briggate in Janaury 1947 with the junction with Boar Lane on the left. In the foreground is a police telephone box and the entrance to the gentlemen's public toilets. The shops in focus are Saxone & Sorosis Shoe Co. Ltd.; Edmond's wool shop, who are having a 'coupon free stock clearance', Wallis & Co (Costumiers) Ltd, (who are having a winter sale). Then S. Tetley & Sons Ltd, tobacconist, who have a window advertisement for Gold Flake. Above Wallis & Co (Costumiers) Ltd is Franks (Opticians) Ltd.

Take a walk down Briggate in the 1940s

Enjoy these photo memories of long lost pubs around LS13.

Memories of lost pubs in LS13

A bird's eye view of Skelton Grange power station in July 1966.

Memories of the power station which served a city

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