| Title | High Street |
| Date | 1980s to 1990 |
| Location | Yeadon |
| Photo ID | X327 |
| Comment | On the left side of the road is the side of the Liberal Club, then a dry cleaners, Yeadon Picture House is located at the bend in the street with display cases on the wall. On the right are Stott’s hardware shop, Cavney’s butchers and the Chocolate Box. |
X308 – High Street, 1981.
High Street – 1981
The car park area is in front of Morrison’s store, to the right side of the street, the shop displaying red sale signs in the windows is Greenwoods men’s shop, moving right next is Stott’s hardware then Buckley’s stationers.
Photographer Dennis Court.
X317 – High Street, 1983.
High Street – 1983
This is a view of the upper High Street, on the right side a car is parked where the entrance to Club Row is now, The fish & Chip sign is for the “Little Fisherman” shop.
Photographer Dennis Court.
X449 – High Street, 1983.
High Street – 1983
A post van is parked outside the old Post Office at the junction of Silver Lane and the High Street.
To the left is the corner of the Yeadon library building, the Town Hall is set back from the road with the clock tower visible.
Moving right are Crockatt’s dry cleaners, David’s Timber and Cliffe’s newsagents.
Photographer Dennis Court.
FB325 – High Street, 1984.
High Street – 1984
This is the bottom of the High Street with Silver Lane on the left.
The building on the left was the Post Office, now a restaurant (August 2013).
On the right are the premises of Lynch Travel.
FB326 – High Street, 1984.
High Street – 1984
On the left is a butchers shop which was owned by the Rigg family. The Riggs were a Rawdon family, many of them had been butchers for generations, they had other shops including one on Harrogate Road, Rawdon.
Behind the Rawdon shop was a slaughterhouse and a bakery where all the pies, pasties, cooked meats etc were prepared fresh daily.
The businesses were sold to Wilkinsons butchers.
Preston’s shoe shop is to the right.
FB327 – High Street, 1984.
High Street – 1984
Preston’s shoe shop is at the left edge, Nipharm Chemist is in the centre, Ackroyd and Dent & Co surveyors are above the Halifax Building Society on the right.
FB328 – High Street, 1984.
High Street – 1984
The Yorkshire Bank which closed in 2016, there are now no banks left in the town, this is due to the rise of internet banking.
The Halifax Building Society branch on the left is now relocated in premises out of view further to the right.
Photographer Dennis Court.
X323 – High Street, 1985.
High Street – 1985
Looking across from Town Hall Square, on the left is the Yorkshire Bank, next to the Fruit Basket is the Bradford & Bingley Building Society then on the right the Nationwide Building Society.
The canopy in the right foreground is outside Yeadon library.
Photographer Dennis Court.
FB481 – High Street, 1986.
High Street – 1986
A snowy view of the High Street, looking from the junction with Harper Lane.
The Clothiers Arms is on the left, this is now a Wetherspoons Inn. (September 2013)
FB482 – High Street, 1986.
High Street – 1986
Upper High Street, on the left a notice directs visitors to Yeadon Tarn (Dam) and car park.
FBA142 – High Street, 1986.
High Street – 1986
On the left is Yeadon Picture House, to the right the shops include the Bran Tub, Bev Wood Florist, F Stott Hardware and Cavney’s butchers, now Wilkinson’s butchers (October 2013).
FBA143 – High Street, 1986.
High Street – 1986
Looking up the High Street to Albert Square, the Albert Inn is to the right.
Shops in view include Greenwoods out-fitters, Hainsworth’s, a branch of the Leeds Co-operative Society at the corner with Marshall Street, then Westfield “Top” fish and chip shop.
J13 – High Street, 1987.
High Street – 1987
Bottom of the High Street from Town Hall Square. Crockatt’s cleaners is on the left, next the Temperance Hall can be seen at the bottom of the Steep (Town Street).
A branch of the National Westminster Bank is at the junction with Silver Lane, moving right the sign for the Post Office is visible, next Lynch Travel, M H Rigg butchers, Preston’s shoe shop, chemist, Whitegate’s and Halifax Building Society and Yorkshire Bank.
J14 – High Street, 1987.
High Street – 1987
On the left edge is Brian Fleming estate agent, then a Chinese take-away and the cinema. At the opposite side of the road a car is parked near the Bran Tub health food store, moving right are Bev Wood florist, Veg Patch, Leeds Permanent Building Society, Stott’s Hardware, Cavney butchers, Chocolate Box and the Job Centre.
