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Armley Mills Museum, Leeds Museums and Galleries

Address:
Canal Road,
Armley, Leeds, LS12 2QF

Opening Times:

For the public: Tue - Fri 10am - 5pm (last admission 4pm)

Sat 10am - 5pm (last admission 4pm)

Sun 1pm - 5pm (last admission 4pm)

 

For schools: Tue - Fri 10am - 5pm

 

Closed: Mondays except Bank Holidays

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Description:

Armley Mills is an Industrial Museum reflecting the wealth of Leeds' industrial heritage, but it was once the largest woollen mill in the world. With a wide range of exhibits dating from the 18th and 19th Centuries, the museum shows the history of textiles, clothing, optics, engine and locomotive manufacturing in the area. Armley Mills also features a recreated mill manager’s parlour, mill workers cottages, Victorian school room, 1920’s cinema and regular working steam engine weekends.

Contact Details:
Tel: 0113 263 7861 Fax: 0113 224 4365

Learning Programmes:
For further details please visit the main Leeds Museums and Galleries website link above.

Specialisms:
Enterprise, Leisure and Tourism, Textiles, Processes and Printing, History, ICT, Business Studies, Design and Technology

Customer Services Tour the customer services provision at Leeds Industrial Museum, Armley Mills. Read More »	Customer Service Records Look at records to do with customer service situations at Armley Mills Read More »
Customer Service Situations Take a look at some typical customer service situations or examples Read More »	Customer Needs Looking at the needs of different types of customers Read More »
Customer Complaints An insight into a local authority museum's complaints procedures Read More »	Music at the Mill Listen to and download some sounds of a working textile mill Read More »
Louis Le Prince About Louis Le Prince who invented the first moving image camera Read More »	A History of Animation A simple explanation of moving image and animation development Read More »
Film Lovers Badge Different film genres explained plus help towards a Guides badge Read More »	Enterprise, Industry and Benjamin Gott Benjamin Gott and the world´s largest woollen mill Read More »
Family Life in the 1950s What life was like for families and children in the 1950s Read More »	Working in the 1950s Take a glimpse at what it was like to work in Yorkshire in the 1950s Read More »
Food in the 1950s Take a look at what people grew, cooked and ate post-WWII in Yorkshire Read More »	Fashion in the 1950s What did people wear in the 1950s? Who were the icons of the time? Read More »
Entertainment and Hobbies in the 1950s Find out what people did in their spare time in the 1950s Read More »	Victorian School Teacher’s life: Log Books and the 1901 Census Discover the life of a teacher through original primary sources Read More »