Get ready to immerse yourself in an exciting and exclusive adventure.

Explore the city like never before with our cutting-edge mobile app as your trusty guide. Trek through the town, crack codes, and interrogate virtual suspects to gather crucial clues. (Yes, it's like being in your own thrilling detective movie!)

Welcome to the seedy streets of the city, where darkness and danger lurk around every corner. You are a private investigator, tasked with solving the most high-profile murder case to hit the city in years. The victim? The infamous politician, Chester Monte.

The waterfront in Leeds City Centre has a rich, interesting, and sometimes amusing history! This audio tour explores this in detail, with narration by local expert Mike. The tour begins outside Marshalls Mill in the old industrial heartland of Leeds, meanders along the river and canal side, and finishes by Leeds Minster. Take in stories of great architecture and people, as well as strange tales of ghostly happenings and witchcraft.

The Leeds City Centre Self Guided Tour is a fun way to find out more about the people, and places that made Leeds what it is today! Stopping at landmarks around the city, local expert Mike narrates you through interesting information and fun facts. From the grand opening of the Civic Hall and drama involving the Queen that day, to the English Civil War battle on Briggate, there are lots of stories to tell on this tour.

Through Leeds City Centre runs the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and River Aire. This waterfront has played an important role in the history of the city, from goods shipping across the North of England, to the creation of Leeds as a major Victorian industrial centre, to modern businesses, homes and cultural spaces.

Join Canal Connections for a fun-filled day of spectre spotting and spooky crafts.

Get creative making ghostly visions, adding to our haunted house plasti-scene and finding the ghosts lurking along the River Aire on our special spectre spotting trail.

All land-based activities are free of charge.

Crafts suitable for children and adults aged 4 and over. 

Weather and canal conditions permitting, there will be a ghost-spotting boat trip lasting 45 minutes. The fare for this is £5 per person including children.

Come and visit Leeds Central Library this Halloween and try your hand at our ghost trail, created by local illustrator Simon Smith.

Inspired by a very spooky scrapbook in our collections, Simon has created illustrations to accompany 16 ghost stories. 

Come and discover the Miser of Bramley or the Ghost of Gipton Wood. Grab an activity sheet and hunt for these images in the Local and Family History Library then use the QR codes to read the full tales of terror.

Free to take part, accessible during library opening hours.

Sounds Like Home creates sonic connections to distant hometowns through a series of sound stations.

Join one of the collective listening walks to discover these sounds from far away places, reflecting on ideas of migration, home and belonging.

Building on relationships artist Alisa Oleva developed during her residency in Leeds last year, the project began as one-to-one walks with people who moved to Leeds from other countries.

Take a journey of discovery around Leeds City Centre, seeing the highlights that Leeds has to offer

Visit beautiful heritage places such as the Town Hall, Corn Exchange and Kirkgate Market and see how they blend with Leeds' modern cosmopolitan culture of shops, bars and restaurants. Plus, see some of the secrets that Leeds keeps along the way! All whilst hearing interesting tales of the people and places that have made Leeds what it is today.

This tour is perfect for visitors to the city, and residents who want to know more about where they live.