AudaTours Leeds Audio Tour: The Bell, the Bandsaw and the Bridge

Follow a self-guided audio walk with headphones and trace 16 stops through Leeds at work: market bells, cloth halls, mills, chapels, music halls and the river crossing where ordinary traffic became early film.

The route begins in Holbeck Urban Village and runs through Kirkgate Market, Briggate and the city centre before heading to Holbeck, Hunslet and Leeds Bridge. Give yourself about 1 hour of audio and around 3 hours in total, including the walking between stops. This Leeds version focuses on the city’s working day in all its practical detail: Michael Marks’s penny stall, the White Cloth Hall and its later successors, John Barran’s band-knife and the tailoring wealth it helped create, the mills and workshops of Holbeck, and the everyday streets that linked trade, worship and entertainment. You’ll also hear how Leeds Bridge was filmed in October 1888, turning an unremarkable morning into one of the earliest moving images in Britain. Listen as you go and see how the city’s labour, buildings and river crossings still line the route.

Timings

Available anytime

Location & directions

Hunslet Road, Leeds LS10, UK, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS10 1JQ

Directions:

Starts at The Tetley, Hunslet Road, Leeds, visits 16 stops, and finishes at Leeds Bridge.

Booking information

Pre-booking requirement:

Book on day

Booking conditions:

Visit the booking link and click the "Get Tour" button to receive a redemption code. Follow the link to download the AudaTours app, enter your redemption code, and you're ready to go.

Booking email:

[email protected]

Booking website:

https://audatours.com/tour/united-kingdom/leeds/p-987-bell-bandsaw-and-bridge

Accessibility details

This is an outdoor, self-guided audio walking tour. The route follows public streets and pavements and does not include access to the interior of any of the sites — they are to be admired from the outside. Please wear comfortable shoes and dress for the weather.

Additional information

You can start the tour whenever suits you during the festival and pause, resume or revisit it at any point — the route plays at your own pace from your phone. Once redeemed, the tour stays in your AudaTours library so you can come back to it any time. Headphones (or one earbud if walking with a companion) are recommended, and the tour works best in daylight hours.

Estimated duration:

2 hour(s)

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