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Evocatively capturing a city already taken over by the hustle-and-bustle of
20th Century life, this vivid phantom ride presents a Leeds high street (thought
to be Boar Lane) at a time when motorcars had not yet replaced horsedrawn
carriages and when the sight of men wearing sandwich boards was common. Features
of today's high street are nonetheless evident: advertisements adorn the street
and traffic recklessly fills the road, with one horse-and-cart cutting
dangerously in front of the moving tram.
This film is complemented by Street Scene in Boar Lane (1898), which offers
an even earlier view of Boar Lane, as well as Leeds - Street Scenes Near Bridge
(1903), which presents another area of Leeds in the same year.
Christian Hayes
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Complete film (1:32)
