The city has undergone some huge changes in the last 20 years. We've dug through our archive to find these photos take you back to Wakefield in 2001, a year which featured a fight for Super League survival, art installations, and new bar openings.
5. June 2001
Owzat! Wakefield St Michaels batter Mark Boycott is clean bowled by Birstall's Nayeem Rao.
6. August 2001
Julie Sataria planned to serving oxygen with pints at her new bar when her new bar on Lower York Street.
7. July 2001
The world of fairy tales and nursery rhymes were celebrated at Wakefield Art Gallery. Pictured is Sam Kirby, five, planting paper flowers in the Gingerbread House garden. Photo: Mel Hulme
8. August 2001
A fans protest banner about the two points Wakefield Wildcats had deducted that could keep them up in Super League.