This bride and groom - Sharman Dearlove and Michael Shaw (on left) and five of the bridegroom's Teddy Boy friends danced in Park Square gardens after the wedding at Leeds Register Office. The five friends are, from left, Danny Gardner, Michael Allotey, Peter Shaw, Neil Higginbottom and Graham Turner. This photo is one of 14 celebrating life around Leeds in 1973. It was a year which saw parking charges introduced in the city centre for the first time on a Saturday. And motorists in Leeds were rationed to a maximum of £1.50 worth as the city and beyond became caught up in Britain's first oil price crisis. These images are a mix from the YEP archive and others published courtesy of photographic archive Leodis, which is run by Leeds Library & Information Service. READ MORE: 22 photos to take you back to Leeds in 1972 LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
![Motorists were charged to park on a Saturday in Leeds city centre for the first time. Pictured are meters on Vicar Lane in September 1973.](https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTI2NDA1MjA1.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
1. Leeds in 1973
Motorists were charged to park on a Saturday in Leeds city centre for the first time. Pictured are meters on Vicar Lane in September 1973.
![Cyril Hoffman is pictured beside the pumps at a filling station in Harehills where customers were being rationed to a maximum of £1.50 worth of petrol in Britain's first oil price crisis in November 1973.](https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTI2NDA1MjA2.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
2. Leeds in 1973
Cyril Hoffman is pictured beside the pumps at a filling station in Harehills where customers were being rationed to a maximum of £1.50 worth of petrol in Britain's first oil price crisis in November 1973.
![The Shaftesbury cinema on York Road pictured in September 1973. It would close two years later.](https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTI2NDA1MjI1.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
3. Leeds in 1973
The Shaftesbury cinema on York Road pictured in September 1973. It would close two years later.
![Hell's Angels rode into Leeds in September 1973 for the funeral of the president of the Leeds Chapter, Stephen Guest, who died in an incident in Derby.](https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTI2NDA1MjI2.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
4. Leeds in 1973
Hell's Angels rode into Leeds in September 1973 for the funeral of the president of the Leeds Chapter, Stephen Guest, who died in an incident in Derby.
![Were you a regular here? The Whip on Bower's Yard in Leeds city centre. It was a pub which remained men-only until the late 1970s.](https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTI2NDA1MjI3.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
5. Leeds in 1973
Were you a regular here? The Whip on Bower's Yard in Leeds city centre. It was a pub which remained men-only until the late 1970s. Photo: Leeds Libraries, www.leodis.net
![Armley Mills and canal from Dunkirk Hill in April 1973. At this time the mill was owned by Leeds City Council after the closure of the mill in 1969 by Bentley and Tempest. The mill reopened in 1982 as Leeds Industrial Museum. PIC: Leeds Museums Service](https://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTI2NDA1MjI4.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
6. Leeds in 1973
Armley Mills and canal from Dunkirk Hill in April 1973. At this time the mill was owned by Leeds City Council after the closure of the mill in 1969 by Bentley and Tempest. The mill reopened in 1982 as Leeds Industrial Museum. PIC: Leeds Museums Service Photo: Leeds Museums Service