Our nostalgic York galleries are proving popular, so here's another - this time from the late 1970s.
What are your memories from that era? Share your stories below or email our features team.
If you missed the previous galleries, here they are again:
- 22 pics of York in the 1950s
- 22 more pics of York in the 1950s
- 34 pics of York in the early-mid 1960s
- 55 pics of York in the mid-late 1960s
- 53 pics of York in the early 1970s
- 37 pics of York in the mid-1970s
1977 - Mr Graham Gaunt of Acomb signs the petition in support of the firemen's pay claim
1977 - The barge Leeds Magnetic just scrapes under the tiny Foss Bridge
1977 - The Ebor Festival at York Races
1977 - Some of the 23 million chocolate eggs being made at the Rowntree's factory
1977 - Henry Cooper on a visit to Woolworth's in Spurriergate
1977 - Rowntree Wharf
1977 - Duncombe Place
1977 - The Silver Jubilee Party in Finsbury Street
1977 - The Silver Jubilee Party in Frances Street
1977 - The disused building of John W Rieveley, corn merchants, in St Andrewgate
1977 - The chapel in York Cemetery before restoration
1977 - A soldier tackles a car fire in Paragon Street during the firemen's strike
1977 - York Morris Men
1977 - Lights illuminating York Minster and the Bar Walls
1978 - The dredging barge Reklaw up to its gunwales on the Ouse
1978 - Gordon Staniforth, York City's Clubman of the Year
1978 - Richard Hall, York Archaeological Trust's site director, on the Coppergate site
1978 - St George's Secondary Modern's senior brass band, which won the York Schools' Brass Band Festival
1978 - An icy veil for the statue in the fountain in Station Rise
1978 - A loaded barge nearing Naburn Lock
1978 - Barges again, this time heading up the River Foss after passing under Foss Bridge
1978 - Floods in York city centre
1978 - The Lord Mayor of York Coun S E Brearley sees Black Magic being made during a visit to the Rowntree Mackintosh factory
1978 - York City Amateur Boxing Club
1978 - Floods in North Street...
1978 - And floods at Clifton Green...
1978 - Snow on the roofs and floodwaters in the streets around Leeman Road
1978 - And floods in Piccadilly
1978 - A soldier punts a boat carrying stranded people from Salisbury Road and Leeman Road
1978 - Stan Norman and track-suited Robin Divorty leading out the York Under 11s Rugby League team at Wembley
1978 - York Rugby League Club play under floodlights at Clarence Street
1979 - 23-31 Coney Street, which were to be sold at auction
1979 - Pupils of Beckfield School rehearse for the Carols in Kirkgate
1979 - A man cycles through a wet St Andrewgate
1979 - Feeding the ducks in Rowntree Park
1979 - St George's Church in Fulford Road, which was demolished in 2001
1979 - Residents read makeshift news bulletins in the window of the Evening Press office, during a newspaper printers' strike
1979 - The Rowntree's warehouse
1979 - A packed Empire for the Community Carol Concert
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