Your city has undergone some huge changes in the last twenty years. We've dug through our archive at the Yorkshire Evening Post to find these photos to take you back to Leeds in 1998, a year which featured protest, demonstrations and new hope. READ MORE: Leeds in 1980 | Leeds in 1992 | Leeds in 1993 | Leeds in 1994 | Leeds in 1996 | Leeds in 1999 | Leeds in 2000 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join the Leeds Retro facebook group
![The morning after the night before. A deserted Briggate on New Year's Day in the city centre.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzMzMyMjE0.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
1. January 1998
The morning after the night before. A deserted Briggate on New Year's Day in the city centre.
![Leeds was brought to a standstill afetr this lorry overturned near Armley Gyratory.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzMzMyMjE4.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
2. January 1998
Leeds was brought to a standstill afetr this lorry overturned near Armley Gyratory. Photo: Mark Bickerdike
![Protesters representing three Leeds primary schools - including Blenheim and Cookridge - demonstrated outside the Civic Hall.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzMzMyMjM0.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
3. January 1998
Protesters representing three Leeds primary schools - including Blenheim and Cookridge - demonstrated outside the Civic Hall.
![Irish President Mary Mc Aleese visited the Leeds Irish Centre.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzMzMyNTQx.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
![Inside the showroom at First Computers on Armley Road in Leeds.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzMzMyNTQy.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
![This is Rod Stanyon who was raging after these pipes were left outside his home in Tinshill.](https://sttms.blob.core.windows.net/images/QVNIMTEzMzMyNTUw.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
6. January 1998
This is Rod Stanyon who was raging after these pipes were left outside his home in Tinshill. Photo: Mel Hulme