Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills

There still exists the remains of the wharf unloading shed and what appears to be a sunken barge alongside the canal at this location.

The earliest record of Armley Mills dates from the middle of the sixteenth century when local clothier Richard Booth leased 'Armley Millnes' from Henry Saville.

The bundles of cloth are hit repeatedly by large hammers, the fulling stocks, while soaked in water, urine and a clay known as Fuller's earth.

It was bought by Colonel Thomas Lloyd, a Leeds cloth merchant, who expanded it to be the world's largest woollen mill.

He leased the running of the mills to Israel and John Burrows; they built semi-detached house for themselves on the far bank of the canal.

The woollen clothing manufacturers Bentley and Tempest took over the mill: an accident book relating to dangerous incidents which occurred during their tenure is in the museum's possession.

[3] Operations at the mill ceased in 1969,[3] a victim to the changing technology, loss of market and the prevailing economic conditions.

[4] The buildings are principally from Benjamin Gott's 1805 construction, with some 19th century infill and a little of the 1795 corn mill that hadn't been destroyed in the fire in 1804.

The main range runs north–south over the millrace and is 23 bays wide, built of ashlar stone with a hipped slate roof.

It has a six bay easterly projection (downstream), known as the Corn Mill, built into the sloping ground which is thus two storeys high.

[6] This includes archives and objects belonging to John Smeaton, Matthew Murray, Systime Computers, Elizabeth Beecroft and many others.

The collection was started in 1956 when the Leeds City Museum acquired Barber from the recently closed Harrogate Gasworks Railway.