This title includes a selection of images taken by staff photographers showing the physical and social changes in the city during the 1980s and 1990s. From bustling streets full of shopping queues and vintage motors to the characters of yesteryear, this book vividly depicts this marvellous city as we once knew it. Leeds is a city which rarely stands still. The photographs in this latest "Yorkshire Evening Post" book cover twenty years in which the city we now see began to come together. They were decades of development. Among the buildings which went up were Quarry House, standing on the site of the flats which have featured so prominently in earlier "Yorkshire Evening Post" books, the White Rose Centre to the south of the city, Leeds City Bus Station and Number One City Square: the office block which still dominates the view from the train station. The early nineties are years which football fans look back on with considerable nostalgia - Leeds United took the First Division title in 1992, the best team in the land. Several photographs show the team from that great 1991-92 season, resplendent in their "Yorkshire Evening Post"-sponsored strip. Leeds is a vibrant, never-sleeping city. The eighties and nineties helped make it what it is today. Those years are slipping into history. I hope you enjoy looking at this book of photographs taken by "Yorkshire Evening Post" photographers and, if you were in our city in the decades at the end of the twentieth century, wonderful memories are brought back by them. "The Yorkshire Evening Post" has been serving the people of Leeds and beyond since the closing years of the 19th century. It has reported on the lives of many generations of Yorkshire people, standing up time and again for its readers and the city at its heart. "The Yorkshire Evening Post" is one of the UK's largest regional newspapers, reflecting both the importance of the area it covers and the loyalty of its readers. For many homes in Leeds and Yorkshire, the day is not complete without the "Evening Post".

This is a new paperback version for 2011. Following the highly successful first volume, it features even more nostalgic photos and memories from the archives of the "Yorkshire Evening Post". There is no more faithful recorder of events which, year in year out, make up the daily life of a great city, than is the local daily newspaper. So there was no better place to begin the stroll down this Memory Lane of Leeds than in the Yorkshire Post Newspapers Library and the Photographic Department, from where most of our pictures were obtained. Others are credited in the text. We think they will jog older minds, intrigue those not so old, astonish and educate the younger end. Perhaps what has most surprised visitors to the city over the years is that Leeds is not packed, boundary to boundary, with dark, satanic mills and spoil heaps. Indeed, it has some fine buildings, a wealth of public parks and open spaces, is ahead of many provincial cities in the provision of outstanding centres of learning and finance and is exceptionally well-served by public transport. Leeds is a city that appeals to tourists, revellers, and of course when it comes to sports Leeds is a city to be reckoned with. The past three decades have seen Leeds grow in stature and importance as well as become a pleasant place to live, work and play.

This title is a new paperback version for 2011. It is a unique collection of pictorial memories of Leeds from the archives of "The Yorkshire Evening Post". "Memory Lane Leeds" will become a treasured item to hand down to the next generation, who will themselves become a part of the history of a great city. There is no more faithful recorder of events which, year in year out, make up the daily life of a great city, than is the local daily newspaper. So there was no better place to begin the stroll down this "Memory Lane of Leeds" than in The Yorkshire Post Newspapers Library and the Photographic Department, from where most of our pictures were obtained. Others are credited in the text. We think they will jog older minds, intrigue those not so old, astonish and educate the younger end. Perhaps what has most surprised visitors to the city over the years is that Leeds is not packed, boundary to boundary, with dark, satanic mills and spoil heaps. Indeed, it has some fine buildings, a wealth of public parks and open spaces, is ahead of many provincial cities in the provision of outstanding centres of learning and finance and is exceptionally well-served by public transport. Leeds is a city that appeals to tourists, revellers, and of course when it comes to sports Leeds is a city to be reckoned with. The past three decades have seen Leeds grow in stature and importance as well as become a pleasant place to live, work and play.

"Leeds in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies" is a fascinating collection of photographs of the city, from the archives of the "Yorkshire Evening Post". All aspects of daily life in the city are documented in these images including buildings, transport and the people of Leeds: tradesmen, office workers, postmen, millworkers, shoppers. Although the book covers a comparatively recent chapter in Leeds' history, the changes in the city have been dramatic. In the 1950s the buildings of Leeds were black with soot, and mill chimneys still dotted the landscape. Steam trains and trams transported people around the city, while those with motor cars could drive up and park outside the city's department stores without charge. By the end of the 1970s the city was already a very different place, and the pace of change has continued unabated. Buildings have been demolished or remodelled, traffic has been redirected along the inner relief road, reducing congestion in the city centre, and the blackened buildings and mill chimneys have almost disappeared. The people of Leeds also appear in these pages: tradesmen, office workers, postmen, millworkers, shoppers - all aspects of daily life in the city are documented. The images in "Leeds in the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies" are sure to bring back memories for many Leeds residents and will provide the younger generation with an insight into how the modern city has developed from its industrial past.