Suspended colourful umbrellas above Coppergate shopping street in York.

Suspended colourful umbrellas above Coppergate shopping street in York. Stock Photo
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Contributor:

Tony Smith

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3G1MY2C

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90.8 MB (4 MB Compressed download)

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Dimensions:

6444 x 4923 px | 54.6 x 41.7 cm | 21.5 x 16.4 inches | 300dpi

Date taken:

5 September 2026

Location:

Coppergate, York, North Yorkshire, UK

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. Shoppers and pedestrians beneath a colourful overhead display of suspended umbrellas at Coppergate in central York. Shop signs, including The Works, and buildings lining the pedestrianised street appear in the background. The decorative installation adds colour to a busy retail setting in the historic city centre and makes the pedestrian route visually memorable. Colourful umbrellas hang above a pedestrian shopping street in York, creating the public-art display known as Brollywalk. The installation is photographed around Coppergate, where the suspended parasols cast patches of colour over the people and shopfronts below. Red, blue, yellow, green and patterned umbrellas appear in rows, turning the open space overhead into an unexpected decorative canopy. Street installations of this kind attract visitors and encourage shoppers to photograph and share images of a destination. York has a longstanding historic shopping and visitor economy, with Coppergate forming part of its busy central retail area. The picture records a temporary artistic intervention in an everyday commercial setting, with pedestrians moving between shops under the brightly coloured display. The Works sign is visible in the background and helps locate the immediate shopping environment. This is an image of overhead umbrella art and city-centre footfall, relevant to York tourism, pedestrian retail streets, outdoor installations and placemaking. The perspective along the street gives a sense of the scale and repetition of the umbrellas. Bright umbrella panels form a patterned canopy above shoppers, contrasting with the relatively narrow line of shopfronts below. The Works sign is visible behind the installation, helping to establish the central York retail setting. A canopy of colourful umbrellas hangs over pedestrians in the Coppergate shopping district, contrasting with visible shop signs and the busy pedestrian street.