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Armley Mills museum, main building This is the main building of the early 19th century woollen mills, replacing a smaller building destroyed by fire in 1805. It now hosts an industrial museum is grade II* listed (list entry 1255747). — Armley Mills museum, main building Credit: Stephen Craven

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Armley Mills museum, main building

This is the main building of the early 19th century woollen mills, replacing a smaller building destroyed by fire in 1805. It now hosts an industrial museum is grade II* listed (list entry 1255747).

Stephen Craven

Armley Mills museum, flood markers

When I photographed the lower flood marker (showing the level of the worst known flood in 1866) in 2015 SE2734 : Leeds Industrial Museum: flood marker, I could not have known that a worse one would follow within months. The effect of the 2015 flood can still be seen on the stonework nearly six years later.

Stephen Craven

Armley Mills museum, diesel locomotive

The museum has a collection of small industrial railway locomotives and wagons built in Leeds, which was a major railway engineering centre until the mid 20th century. This is a 300 horsepower diesel locomotive of 1934 by Hudswell Clarke, one of the largest of its type at that date, though modest by the standards of post-war diesel locos.

Stephen Craven

Armley Mills museum, battery locomotives

The museum has a collection of small industrial railway locomotives and wagons built in Leeds, which was a major railway engineering centre until the mid 20th century. The yellow object here is battery pack of a cabless electric locomotive built for an overseas mine, and beyond it an early battery-electric loco in green.

Stephen Craven

Armley Mills museum, flow through the sluice

The water in the millpond is lower here than when I photographed it in 2015 SE2734 : Leeds Industrial Museum: mill pond, because the sluice was open on this occasion, allowing water to flow back out to the river. To the left are the arched openings to the channels that originally fed six waterwheels, one of which is preserved. See SE2734 : Armley Mills, Armley, Leeds for a clearer view of the sluice.

Stephen Craven

Systime computer, Armley Mills museum

This Systime 'Mini-computer' (so called by comparison with a 'mainframe') with its large disks of 2.8 megabyte capacity is exactly the type on which I learnt to write computer code in 1979. It's now a museum piece.

Stephen Craven

Armley Mills museum - workers memorial tree

The tree was planted in 1992 in memory of all those killed by industrial accidents and diseases (including by implication my late father-in-law, whom I never met).

Stephen Craven

Armley Mills museum - workers memorial tree plaque

The tree SE2734 : Armley Mills museum - workers memorial tree was planted in 1992 in memory of all those killed by industrial accidents and diseases.

Stephen Craven

Armley Mills museum - the colour garden

The colour garden grows plants that yield dyestuffs, such as madder (red) and woad (blue). In the museum you can see cloth woven with yarn dyed with these natural colours.

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The north end of Pickering Street

The junction with Canal Road has only had traffic lights added this year (2021), with Armley Park Road the other side being made no entry SE2733 : The bottom of Armley Park Road. The stop line this side is set well back to allow lorries accessing an industrial estate to sweep round.

Stephen Craven

City Cabs, Pickering Street

A private hire company office.

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Carlton Trading Estate, Pickering Street

For a view from the other direction see SE2733 : Pickering Street, Armley, Leeds. The factory here was home to Wilsons & Mathiesons, iron founders.

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The north end of Pickering Street, remodelled

The junction with Armley Road was subject to roadworks at this time, as Armley Road was being widened to add a bus lane. Since 2016 Pickering Street itself has been reverted from one-way with contraflow cycle lane SE2733 : South end of Pickering Street to a regular two-way road.

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The Peg and Basket Ltd

Laundry and Linen Hire.

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Old stone boundary wall

In the 19th century this wall marked the boundary between the Albion armament works (this side) and the Leeds Iron Forge the other side. It still represents a boundary, between the Albion and Maybrook industrial estates - there's another access road just the other side but no direct connection between them.

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Sanctuary Bathrooms

The building housing the bathroom showroom and a couple of other businesses stands on the site of the former Queen's woollen mill. Spring Garden lock on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal is just the other side of the building but at a lower level and with no direct access SE2833 : Spring Garden Lock.

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Albion Park Industrial Estate (1)

Named after Greenwood & Bateley's Albion armament works that formerly occupied the site of this building from 1859 to 1987, and produced among other items the large testing rig for what is now the Kirkaldy Museum in London TQ3180 : Kirkaldy’s Testing and Experimenting Works, 99 Southwark Street, London.. (source: Link

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Albion Park Industrial Estate (2)

Named after Greenwood & Batley's Albion armament works that formerly occupied a nearby site from 1859 to 1987. This modern building houses units 10 to 14.

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Green Side is located at Grid Ref: SE2732 (Lat: 53.785868, Lng: -1.590167)

Division: West Riding

Unitary Authority: Leeds

Police Authority: West Yorkshire

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