Leeds Digital Festival - Innovation and Invention Guided Walk

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.

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.

Host or Publisher Page White Farrer