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Although the Manchester and Leeds railway opened in 1841, Halifax was bypassed; the nearest station was at Elland.

After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge.

Hipperholme is at the busy intersection of roads from Brighouse, Halifax, Denholme and Leeds. The Co-op store (1889), left, is now a motorcycle showroom.

The abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district. Kirkstall was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains Abbey.

Converted from a Georgian private house, the Village Stores and Post Office was the communal centre of the former West Yorkshire village of Wortley, which is now not much more than a suburb of the city of Leeds

After the Dissolution, the abbey was left a ruin and many of its stones were eventually carted off and used to widen the old Leeds Bridge.

Horsforth is now not much more than a suburb of nearby Leeds, but when this photograph was taken, it still retained its separate, village character.

Leeds was one of the pioneers of segregated tracks, keeping trams and other vehicles apart.

The tiny hamlet grew around a paper mill, opened in the 1840s by the Parke family beside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

Many of the trams were sold to the Leeds Corporation.

In the days when the Reverend William Downes was rector, and William Wilkinson kept the Leeds Arms, local farmers included Joseph Booth, Jonathan Marshall, Maude Thomas, John Shirt and Thomas Stanland.

Some of the stained glass is from Florence.The monuments to Lady Margaret Osborne and the First Duke of Leeds are of outstanding quality and craftsmanship.

The unusual placename of Kippax, a village to the east of Leeds, comes from the Saxon, and means 'Cyppa's ash tree'.

Many of the trams were sold to the Leeds Corporation.

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.

The Town Hall was designed by the Leeds architect W H Crossland in a Gothic Flemish style and built between 1866 and 1871.

The abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district. Kirkstall was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains Abbey.

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 abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district. The Abbey was founded in 1152 as a daughter house of Fountains.

Thomas became the Whig MP for Calne, Leeds, but it was his masterpiece - 'A History of England', that brought him fame.

The abbey played a part in the industrial development of Leeds, for it was here that iron forging first began in the district.

Collingham stands on the River Wharfe on a major route north from Leeds, and was originally the site of a Roman settlement.

The Leeds/Liverpool Canal and the railway both increased access to new markets across the Pennines and down to the south.

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