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With airports busy this summer, we've delved into our archive to look back at holiday-makers departing from Leeds Bradford Airport in the 1980s. Back then it was known as ‘Yeadon Airport’ - and it still is, to many Bradfordians.

Dressed smartly - check out the elderly couple in the queue even with their hats and smart coats on - passengers are pictured waiting to check in at the airport. If they were jetting off to sunny Spain, they may have found they didn't need those hats and coats after all, once the plane landed.

A couple of decades earlier, in 1964, passengers flying from the airport could check in several miles away, at St George's Hall in Bradford. The concert venue was used as an airport lounge in the early days of package holidays. Passengers took a coach to the airport.

The Yeadon airport opened in 1931, used mostly for general aviation and training, and its first scheduled flights were in 1935.