Armley Mills Industrial Museum
- Armley Mills Industrial Museum
The Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum is a museum of industrial heritage located in Armley, west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It includes collections of textile machinery, railway equipment and heavy engineering amongst others.
The Grade II* listed building housing the Armley Mills museum was once the world's largest woollen mill. The current structures were built in 1805 by Benjamin Gott and closed as a commercial mill in 1969. They were taken over by Leeds City Council and reopened as a museum of industrial heritage in 1982.
Railway collection
The museum has an extensive collection of narrow gauge railway rolling stock. The collection was started in 1956 when the Leeds City Museum acquired "Barber" from the recently closed Harrogate Gas Works Railway. A short display line is installed at Armley allowing some of the collection to run.
Locomotives
References
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ee also
* British narrow gauge railways
External links
* [http://www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills/ Official web site]
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