“New Briggate was as much about to getting people to where they needed to go, as it was giving them a new destination” - Shaun Page, Leeds Echoes Podcast.

 

I explored the history of the street through transportation, from trams in the late 19th century to being fully pedestrianised in 2022.

I gathered photos, old tickets and ephemera relating to New Briggate transport in the Leeds Library. I drew architectural features of the street on location, and used the sketches to create cut outs from brown paper and old tickets. Historic photographs from New Briggate informed ink drawings of people in the collage.

My illustration was distributed as postcards in local shops, turned into sticker sheets and displayed on lamppost banners to connect with the history of the street

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Read more about the project here.