There were many celebrity visits during the Swinging Sixties
Enjoy these photo memories of celebrity visits to Leeds in the 1960s. PIC: West Yorkshire Archive ServiceActress Susannah York photographed at the Grand Theatre in November 1963. She was appearing in a new play Wings of the Dove, adapted from Henry James's novel. The production later moved to the West End.
Jazz trumpeter Louis Armstrong is seen arriving at Leeds and Bradford Airport. He was met by seven-year-old Enrico Tomasso from York Road, playing 'Basin Street Blues' with his father Ernie. Louis was due to appear at Batley Variety ClubCilla Black, Bruce Forsyth and Lionel Blair photographed in a car outside Yorkshire Television studios in June 1969.
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