A Bedford Tower Wagon and maintenance team doing running repairs on the tram cables under the railway bridge HUL4/53 and next to the Viaduct pub, 11 Briggate City Centre, Leeds LS1 6ER. Image taken during the late 1950s before the decommissioning of the Tramway Network. The area nowadays is known as the Leeds village and popular with the LGBT community. The railway bridge was painted in the Pride colours in 2017 and also known as the Leeds Freedom Bridge.


A Bedford Tower Wagon and maintenance team doing running repairs on the tram cables under the railway bridge HUL4/53 and next to the Viaduct pub, 11 Briggate City Centre, Leeds LS1 6ER. Image taken during the late 1950s before the decommissioning of the Tramway Network. The area nowadays is known as the Leeds village and popular with the LGBT community. The railway bridge was painted in the Pride colours in 2017 and also known as the Leeds Freedom Bridge.


Size: 7112px × 4572px
Location: Briggate, Leeds, West Yorkshire
Photo credit: © Simon Webster / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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