Bond Street Shopping Centre opened in the summer of 1977 and boasted 30 shops including big names brands such as BHS and Mothercare. These photos turn back the clock to a time when shopping was a pursuit enjoyed exclusively on foot rather than online. READ MORE: Go inside the two city shopping arcades that made way for Trinity Leeds | Go inside the Corn Exchange during the 1990s and 2000s | 12 things you don’t see in Leeds city centre anymore that you could a decade ago LOVE LEEDS? LOVE NOSTALGIA? Join Leeds Retro on facebook
![In the beginning. This is a view of the site when building work started in January 1975.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE0NTMwOTQz.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
1. Bond Street Shopping Centre
In the beginning. This is a view of the site when building work started in January 1975.
![This is a view of the Centre, pictured in August 1977, ahead of it opening to the public.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE0NTMwOTQ0.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
2. Bond Street Shopping Centre
This is a view of the Centre, pictured in August 1977, ahead of it opening to the public.
![One moving staircase going up, another moving staircase coming down. The escalators on Boar Lane, pictured in November 1980.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE0NTMwOTQ1.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
3. Bond Street Shopping Centre
One moving staircase going up, another moving staircase coming down. The escalators on Boar Lane, pictured in November 1980.
![Is this the Bond Street Shopping Centre you remember? Pictured here in October 1978.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE0NTMxMDk0.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
4. Bond Street Shopping Centre
Is this the Bond Street Shopping Centre you remember? Pictured here in October 1978.
![The Centre's dream clean team pictured in October 1978.](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE0NTMxMDk1.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)
![Did you shop here - at Dolcis - pictured in October 1978?](https://www.thestar.co.uk/webimg/QVNIMTE0NTMxMDk2.jpg?crop=3:2&width=640)