Leake Street

Leake Street (also known as the Banksy Tunnel) is a road tunnel in Lambeth, London where graffiti is tolerated regardless of the fact that it is against the law. The street is about 300 metres long, runs off York Road and under the platforms and tracks of Waterloo station.

Graffiti from the 2008 Cans Festival included Banksy's Injured Buddha (left) and Sten Lex's Saint (right)
This article is about the street in London. For the street in Fremantle, Australia, see Leake Street, Fremantle.

The Leake Street tunnel in 2018

The walls are decorated with graffiti, initially created during the Cans Festival organised by Banksy on 3–5 May 2008.[1] The festival ran again on the August Bank Holiday weekend 2008.[2]

While the Eurostar terminal was at Waterloo, the road was open for through vehicular traffic. On 14 November 2008 ownership of the road passed from Eurostar to Network Rail[3] and through traffic was restricted to pedestrians.

Prior to the 1920s the street was known as York Street.[4]

References
  1. The Terran Tribune on the Cans Festival
  2. Cans Festival 2: street artists return to Leake Street
  3. The future of Leake Street Archived 7 January 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  4. "A-Z New to Old Street names". www.maps.thehunthouse.com. Retrieved 16 August 2019.


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