Welcome back to our new edition of the guided walk at the Leeds Digital Festival! This year, the plan is to head west from Platform through City Square – packed with inventive history and innovators, including Joseph Priestley and James Watt.
Key points for the walk:
- City Square was famous for the first electrically lit statues in the country in 1903. We’ll see the UK’s first electric trolleybus terminal point from 1911;
- We’ll pass the site of the former Whitehall Electric Lighting Power Station before heading to Wellington Place to see the new Wagon Hoist Museum;
- A trip on the new Monkbridge Viaduct Park where we’ll talk about the “Hunslet Square Mile”, the most important manufacturers of steam engines in the World;
- We’ll walk along the canal towpath and talk about John Smeaton, the invention of the lighthouse and why Leeds became an inland port;
- The walk will end at the Cross Keys pub in Holbeck (at 5.30pm), where we invite you to join us for a drink. It was at this pub that the Leeds Digital Festival, in its current form, was founded in 2016.
The event is organised by Page White Farrer:
We are one of the leading firms of specialist patent and trade mark attorneys in Europe with offices in the UK (London and Leeds) and Germany. We’re experienced in all aspects of intellectual property law, including patents, trade marks and design rights, and our clients range from multinational companies, to small start-ups and individual inventors.
Citizens, students, professionals: anyone interested in learning about the history of innovation and the city of Leeds.
