Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills: once the world’s largest woollen mill

When Benjamin Gott built up Armley Mills in 1805, it became the largest woollen mill on earth. The Leeds Industrial Museum now fills those same buildings between the canal and the Aire.

(Image: Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills — Ashley Dace, CC BY-SA 2.0, via geograph / Wikimedia Commons)

Textile machinery, steam engines, railway locomotives and a working picture palace tell the story of the industries that made Leeds — the closest cousin in spirit to Morley’s own mill-town past.

📍 Canal Road, Armley, Leeds LS12 2QF — Google Maps
Tue–Sun (closed Mondays except bank holidays) · Small admission charge · Leeds Museums & Galleries

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