Tuesday, March 7, 2023

'20 Minute Diameter Leeds' - Terminalia Festival 2023

 As part of 4WCoP 2022 (Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography), Mathilda Guerin created a project entitled 'Walking Webs', inviting people to participate by creating a walking web of their own city and I created my own walking web in Leeds, my home town in the UK. 

My walking web was created, according to the supplied instructions, by walking from a selected starting point, North, South East and West. Along each of these axes, we were asked to walk for 10 minutes and 20 minutes respectively and to take a photograph at each of these points. It was then possible to connect up all four of the 10 minute points and also the 20 points.

My walking web, and the photos taken after walking for 10 minutes and 20 minutes can be seen here:



Walking Web showing the Starting Point, 10 Minute and 20 Minute Points




Walking Web showing the photographs taken at all the points



I try to participate in the annual Terminalia Festival each year and so for the 2023 edition I chose part of the walking web I had created previously as this conveniently marks out an area of the city with a perimeter roughly 10 minutes from the centre.

On Thursday 23 February 2023 I started walking from the northern point, close to the College of Building on North Street, walking clockwise. 



North to East Section

North Street - Byron Street - Regent Street - Hope Road - Mabgate - St. Mary's Street - Rider Street - Burmantofts Street - Marsh Lane



Millwright Street, just off Hope Road




Sheepscar Beck (or Mabgate Beck), before it becomes Lady Beck




Grade II listed Hope Foundry (1831-1850), a former brass and iron foundry




St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Grade II listed




Pedestrian Crossing to Quarry House, Department of Health



East to South Section

Marsh Lane - Crown Point Bridge - Crown Point Road - Great Wilson Street 



Car park entrance / exit on Marsh Lane, not far from the old railway station




Penny Pocket Park, previously St. Peter's Graveyard




River Aire, looking West from Crown Point Bridge



South to East Section

Great Wilson Street - Water Lane - Wharf Approach - Leeds Liverpool Canal Towpath - Whitehall Waterfront - Whitehall Road - Northern Street



'Hello Friends' by Bryan and Laura Davies, 2007. 
Inspired by Brancusi's Endless Column, 1937 and installed inside Bridgewater Place




Glimpse of the beautiful grade II listed 'Verona' Tower (based on the Lamberti Tower in Verona), originally built as dust extractors for the nearby steel pin factory, the first of the three Italianate towers to be built on the site that is rapidly becoming the new 'Tower Works' residential development




Another view of River Aire, this time looking South West from the new bridge linking Pocket Park to the Whitehall Riverside Terraces



East to North Section

Wellington Street - Britannia Street - York Place - King Street - East Parade - Victoria Square - Calverley Street - Great George Street - Cookridge Street - Merrion Way - Lovell Park Road - Grafton Street - North Street



Inexplicably ignored and unattributed artwork by Joseph Beuys, outside Leeds Art Gallery & Henry Moore Centre, part of his 7,000 Oaks work.




Leeds Owls on parade along the Calverley Street facade of Leeds Central Library




Colourful objects sit playfully in Lovell Park, previously a cattle market (c.1860)



This one-day Festival of Psychogeography has been held every year on the 23rd of February since 2011 and brings together individuals and groups who mark the Festival of Terminus, the Roman god of boundaries and landmarks.

Previous walks for Terminalia: