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Long Preston was once a larger settlement than Leeds, but now it is a peaceful backwater disturbed only by the constant traffic on the A65.

In 1934 Leeds City council embarked on a programme to clear 30,000 slums.

On the left is Leeds' oldest shop, which dates from 1613 and is receiving a face lift. Further along the street on the right stands the Empire Theatre.

The hillside town of Yeadon lies to the north of Bradford, and is today perhaps most famous as the site of the Leeds-Bradford Airport.

From the Bay Horse there was a coach to Selby; from the Elephant & Castle there was one to Thirsk, Leeds, York and Harrogate.

At one time it was a favourite venue for gala days and brass band competitions, with special trains bringing people from such places as Leeds, Bradford, Bury and Oldham.

This modest hospital was set up in Scotland Lane as the Leeds Work People's Convalescent Home. Members would pay their 1d a week and be entitled to rest and recuperation here.

It became the Leeds University on 25 April 1904. This original site now nestles behind the 1951 Portland stone Parkinson building.

Boasting branches in London, Leeds, Harrogate and Sunderland, Taylor's claimed they were 'known everywhere' for providing 'the public with pure drugs'.

building, with tall, slim lancets extending almost from floor to roof, was conceived by R D Chantrell in 1828; Chantrell was responsible for a number of Gothic- revival inspired churches in the Leeds

Boasting branches in London, Leeds, Harrogate and Sunderland, Taylor's claimed they were 'known everywhere' for providing 'the public with pure drugs'.

curious building, with tall, slim lancets extending almost from floor to roof, was conceived by R D Chantrell in 1828; Chantrell was responsible for a number of Gothic-revival inspired churches in the Leeds

In 1934 Leeds City Council embarked on a programme to clear 30,000 slums.

In 1934 Leeds City council embarked on a programme to clear 30,000 slums.

In 1841 Thomas Cook organised the earliest-known Sunday excursion with a trip from Leeds to Hull.The train comprised 40 carriages and carried 1,250 passengers.

The railway cuts a swathe through Halifax, yet given the town's importance, there was a sense of outrage when the Manchester & Leeds Railway bypassed the town with no connecting branch line built.

In 1911, a joint scheme between Leeds and Bradford saw the inauguration of Britain's first trolleybus service.

The railway cuts a swathe through Halifax, yet given the town's importance, there was a sense of outrage when the Manchester & Leeds Railway bypassed the town with no connecting branch line built.

The grand and impressive frontage of the Leeds building reflected the Victorians' preoccupation with good communications in their efforts to encourage a prosperous commercial and business community.

The viaduct which carries the main Sheffield-Leeds railway line dominates this view of the High Street of the South Yorkshire town of Denby Dale.

Stone for the building was cut on site by machinery brought to the estate by way of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. The timber came from the Haigh and from Crawford's estates in Jamaica.

In the mid 19th century, many middle-class residents of central Leeds began to move out to the north of the city near to the country estates of Beckett's Park and Hollin Hall, and Headingley became a rather

Situated below Winter Hill on Rivington Moor, Adlington developed as a textile town before the advent of the railway because of its proximity to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, which runs

The canal opened in 1817, and ran from Kendal to Lancaster, later continuing south to connect with the Leeds and Liverpool Canal via a tramway at Preston.