15 photos take you back to Leeds in 1995

Did you work here back in the day? Halifax Direct Call Centre on Water Lane which opened in September 1995. (Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net)

Halifax Direct, a call centre on Water Lane was launched with hundreds of workers servicing the 24 hours a day, 365 days a year operation. This was 1995, a 12 months which featured conversations around the office space of the future and working patterns as your city felt the pressure of traffic gridlock. Enjoy these images, a mix from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of the David Atkinson Archive and photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service, charting a year in the life of your city.