Self-guided audio walking tour through 14 stops across 5.2 kilometres of Leeds, tracing the city's industrial working day.
The Bell, the Bandsaw and the Bridge is a self-guided audio walking tour of Leeds, starting at City Square (LS1 2HT). It's not a fixed-time thing, so you can set off whenever suits you, and the redemption code doesn't expire, which means you can hold onto it until you've actually got a free morning or afternoon to do the whole thing.
The tour follows an industrial working day across around 14 stops and 5.2 kilometres. You'll start with Michael Marks's 1884 penny stall in Kirkgate Market, then the 1711 White Cloth Hall, and the ghost of the 1758 Coloured Cloth Hall sitting under City Square. From there it's on to John Barran's 1858 band-knife and the Holbeck mills where Salamanca rolled out in 1812, before finishing at Leeds Bridge. There, everyday traffic filmed in October 1888 made a working morning the oldest cinema in Britain.
AudaTours, the people behind it, say their guides bring these landmarks to life with the history, scandals and detail you'd never get from a plaque, and they draw on verified historical sources. It's all self-guided through the free AudaTours app, which works fully offline once you've downloaded it, so you won't have to worry about your signal cutting out as you move through the city.
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It starts from £3.99, and because it's your own pace, you can take as long as you like between stops. If you're into the city's industrial past, it's a good way to see a few spots you'd otherwise walk right past.
