Photo memories

Youngsters hurtle down a huge slide on the promenade at Bridlington in July 1972

44 nostalgic photos to bring back happy memories of early 70s summers
These photos will have many of you yearning for the summers of your youth.

Children in the playground at Castleton Primary School, Armley, Leeds, in March 1977

44 nostalgic photos capture school life during the 60s and 70s

Arndale Shopping centre, Leeds, at Christmas in 1988

45 nostalgic photos to leave you pining for Yorkshire life in the 80s

Leeds, Briggate, in the 1960s, with shops including Saxone shoes

48 photos to bring back happy memories of 60s and 70s shopping trips

A big queue in Headingley, Leeds, for the Cricket World Cup match between England and Australia on June 18, 1975

34 nostalgic photos capture the things worth waiting for

Printerpix hardback photobooks can be personalised with photographs, text, layouts and a custom cover

Personalised hardback photobook drops to £1.69 with discount code

The Tower Picture House, Leeds, in 1975.

40 of the best nostalgic photos taking you back to the 70s

Competitors in the York Bonding Warehouse barrel race raise their glasses in July 1981

40 nostalgic photos taking you back to 1981

Pupils at Harehills Middle School, Leeds, pictured during a computer lesson in January 1992

33 nostalgic photos capture 90s school days

Trevor Middleton, of Middleton Hargreaves butchers, pictured at Leeds Market on February 2, 1983, with staff members Carl Hilton, Brian Longbottom, Christopher Farmer, Roy Marsden, Colin Clark, Jackie Morgan and Graham Wray. He cut prices 'to the bone', thinking his shops might be closed due to storm damage.

42 nostalgic photos capture early 80s life around Leeds

The 300ft cooling towers at Skelton Grange 'A' power station in Leeds, each weighing 4,000 tonnes, are sent crashing down by a controlled explosion in November 1989

41 nostalgic photos capture lost landmarks before demolition

Ian Haslem with landlord John English at the Ivy House pub, Holmfield, in December 1980

50 nostalgic photos show pubs and their landlords in the 80s and 90s

Station master Cyril Miles pictured at Kirkstall Station on its last day as a passenger station, March 20, 1965

40 nostalgic photos taking you back in time by train

Briggate, Leeds, in the 1960s, with shops including Saxone shoes

29 nostalgic photos capture life around the county in the 60s

Inside the Merrion Centre, Leeds, during the 1970s

34 nostalgic photos to bring back memories of 70s life

Children having fun at the park in Parson Cross, Sheffield, in August 1975

38 nostalgic photos capturing a 70s childhood in Yorkshire

Neil Goodwin on his stall, 'England's Lowest Prices', at Leeds Market, in 1998

32 nostalgic photos show markets in the 90s, including popular traders

Quarry Hill flats, in Leeds, pictured in 1967, just over a decade before demolition began

18 photos show lost landmarks you may remember from the 60s and 70s

Models on the rooftop of Queens Hotel, Leeds, in the early 1950s

52 photos taking you on a tour of Yorkshire in the early 50s

Revellers at a Leeds nightclub in December 1991

34 of the best retro photos taking you back to 1991 around Yorkshire

Arndale Shopping centre, Leeds, at Christmas 1988

38 nostalgic photos show popular 60s, 70s and 80s shops
From getting your school uniform at BHS to pick ‘n’ mix in Woolworths, these photos will bring back memories for shoppers of a certain generation.
Robert Cumber

The downstairs floor of the nightclub Upstairs Downstairs in Armley, west Leeds, in April 1977

27 photos taking you back to popular 70s and 80s nightclubs

The ABC cinema, Vicar Lane, Leeds, in April 1975, with the films showing including The Towering Inferno

52 photos capture the glamour of old cinemas

This retro photo gallery is sure to bring back memories if you grew up in the 60s or 70s

15 photos you'll only understand if you grew up in the 60s and 70s

Ice cream seller Johnny Marrocco beside his kiosk on Land's Lane, Leeds, in 2008

38 retro photos celebrating Yorkshire's love affair with ice cream

Leeds Corporation public wash house, on Kirkstall Road, in June 1964, when it cost 3s 6d for two hours' washing

42 nostalgic photos show how the 60s and 70s really looked

These are the shops that UK consumers would most like to see return to the high street, according to a new study

15 photos looking back at the UK's most-missed high street shops

Washing hanging between back-to-back houses in Burmantofts, Leeds, during the late 60s or early 70s

45 nostalgic photos show 70s people and places you might remember

It was not until 1979 that the first barcode was scanned in a UK shop. Before that, prices had to be entered manually at the till, meaning you spent much longer at the checkout. Self-checkout machines weren't introduced until the early noughties.

7 things you'll remember doing if you went shopping in the 60s and 70s

These photos show some of the most popular toys of the noughties

32 photos show the toys you grew up playing with in the noughties

This retro photo gallery shows some of the best-loved noughties nightclubs in Yorkshire

44 of Yorkshire's best-loved noughties nightclubs

The games room at Seacroft Working Men's Club, Leeds, at lunchtime on a Sunday in June 1970

30 nostalgic photos capture golden years of working men's clubs
Working Men’s Clubs have been at the heart of Britain’s communities for more than 150 years.
Robert Cumber

We asked what you miss most about the 70s, and we had hundreds of responses

17 of the things you miss most about life in the 70s, in pictures

A man in an apron panning chocolate at Rowntree Cocoa Works, York, in 1900

29 photos celebrating Britain's proud history of making sweets

Noel fashion store on the corner of Lands Lane and Commercial Street, Leeds, in January 1971, with Lotus shoes in the background

46 photos transporting you back to the early 70s

There are some things children did in the 60s and 70s that, if it didn't kill them, probably made them stronger

6 things that didn't kill you but made you stronger in the 60s and 70s

There are some things people would love to forget about school in the 60s and 70s.

9 school memories to make you shudder if you grew up in the 60s or 70s

These are some of the household chores children who grew up in the 60s and 70s will remember doing

7 chores you'll probably remember if you grew up in the 60s and 70s

Workers standing in the bottom section of the Queensway Tunnel, Liverpool, in September 1929, beneath an experimental length of reinforced concrete, which would form the roadway.

Britain's biggest construction projects in photos

Football stadiums across Yorkshire have changed considerably over the years, as these nostalgic photos show

37 nostalgic photos show how region's football stadiums have changed

We asked you what toys you loved playing with as a child, and lots of people shared their memories

The favourite childhood toys you remember, from the 60s to the 90s

Shoppers could get all manner of freebies during the 60s, 70s and 80s

7 of the best freebies you got in the 60s, 70s and 80s

A police officer at a busy pedestrian crossing in Doncaster in July 1961, before the bypass was built

38 nostalgic photos capture 50s and 60s life

What did you ask Santa for in the 70s and 80s, and did he deliver?

7 popular stocking fillers you'll remember from the 70s or 80s

These photos show popular shops around Yorkshire between the 1950s and the 1990s

34 nostalgic photos capturing a lost era of shopping

There are some 80s moments everyone remembers, from pop culture to politics

11 thrilling moments you'll remember if you grew up in the 80s

There were some things almost all children knew how to make in the 60s and 70s

7 things you knew how to make if you grew up in the 60s or 70s

These remarkable photos capture the heavy snow during some of the UK's most extreme winters in living memory

35 remarkable photos capture heavy snow during most extreme winters

There are some things you'll almost certainly remember doing if you grew up in the 60s

You didn't grow up in the 60s if you don't remember doing these things

There are some car maintenance skills that most drivers possessed in the 60s and 70s but younger motorists lack

6 lost car maintenance skills every driver had in the 60s and 70s

Some people are still using products made more than a century ago, when things were built to last

9 of the longest surviving household goods, built to last

Ready meals really took off in the UK during the 70s and 80s

9 ready meals you'll remember if you grew up in the 70s, 80s or 90s

The prizes on the Generation Game's famous conveyor belt during the 70s, 80s and 90s were a mixed bag

13 of the most popular Generation Game prizes in the 70s, 80s and 90s

The Index catalogue was published from 1985 to 2005

7 lost catalogues you'll remember from the 70s, 80s, 90s and noughties

There are several items that were commonplace in the 60s and 70s, but young people today would struggle to work

7 common 60s and 70s items most people wouldn't know how to work today

A miner tries his luck at the coconut shy at the Good Friday Fair in Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, in 1955

21 nostalgic photos to give you that Friday feeling

There are some wedding presents almost every couple had on their list in the 70s and 80s

7 of the most popular wedding gifts of the 70s and 80s

These photos capture scenes at nightclubs around Yorkshire during the 80s and 90s

31 photos capture good times at popular nightclubs of the 80s and 90s

These were some of the coolest and most desirable products of the 80s and 90s

7 of the coolest things we all wished we owned in the 80s and 90s

British boxer Henry Cooper plays the game frustration, at home with his family, in 1971

9 of the best games of the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s

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