HERE are 13 images of Clifton from The Press archives, dating back to the 1970s.
This is the second in a new series of galleries featuring archive photographs from areas around York which featured in The Press over the years, and we want to know what you think to them.
Share your memories below, and keep visiting our history section for more old galleries and nostalgia features.
1) Construction of the footbridge at St Peter's School in April 1975
2) Destruction of the footbridge in 1984 by a lorry carrying a high excavator. A female cyclist escaped being hit by the falling bridge by inches.
3) and 4) Children playing and fishing at Clifton Ings in 1982
5) A 100-year-old train carriage is lowered into the garden of John Rathmell's house in Melton Avenue in November 1980.
6) A bulldozer moves in on terraced houses in Skelton Street in August 1977.
7) Constractors dig under Clifton Airfield, off Kettlestring Lane in January 1980, to try to find the boundaries of the Yorkshire coalfield.
8) Brian Stills, assistant treasurer at Clifton park, stands over the blackened remains of the pavilion following a fire in February 1976.
9) Shoppers at the opening of Matalan in Clifton Moor in March 1993
10) Children protest against the narrowing of Dead Man's Alley in December 1991, with Councillors Steve Whitehead, Howard Perry and Anne Curran.
11) Fireworks at Clifton Park in 1976
12) Dandy's bakery, pictured in 1966
13) Clifton Green, during the floods of 1982
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