From Leeds to London: portraits of English cities in the 1970s –Peter Mitchell

Ready Mixed Concrete Ltd, Elland Road, summer 1977

Mr Pearson, steam-grab driver, Victoria Bridge, spring 1974

Mrs Collins and Mrs Clayton, Robinsons' Famous Fisheries, Beck Road, summer 1974

Mr Reuben, Rugby Cabinet Co Ltd, Lucas Court, summer 1974

Mr Gower, Cabin Cafe, Upper Wortley Road, winter 1975

Tivoli Cinema, Sissons Lane, summer 1976

Eric Massheder, dripping-refinery worker, Vulcan Street, spring 1975

Raine Bros Ltd, plumbers' merchants, Crown Street, spring 1974

View to the West, Quarry Hill Flats, summer 1977. 'The Kitson House telephone was the only one on the estate,' says Mitchell

Francis Gavan, ghost-train ride, Woodhouse Moor, spring 1986. 'Francis built this apparition himself and was stuck in Leeds for the next three days with a broken generator'

Elaine Whitehead & Linda, Red Brick Cafe, Dewsbury Road, summer 1992. 'Sandwiched between the tarmac and the sky, and with those red bricks, Elaine's cafe is so Leeds'

Noel and his lads, demolition men, Quarry Hill Flats, summer 1978. 'The last arch of Quarry Hill. Noel, with a real sense of occasion, got his men to pose for posterity'