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
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:
