Armley Introduction Booklet

Learning Pack INTRODUCTION This booklet contains: Practical Information for your Visit Page 2 Armley Mills – The Collections Page 4 Background Information Page 5 The Textiles Process – From Fleece to Fashion Page 8 The History of Armley Mills – A Timeline Page 10 Web Resources Page 11 Map and Floorplan of Armley Mills Museum Page 12 How to use this pack This pack is designed primarily to support self-led school visits to Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills. The pack looks at a number of different themes, relating to the museums collections, across a range of curriculum areas. The pack includes background information to the Museum, teachers’ notes and a number of activity sheets for pupils to use independently, in pairs or in groups. Teacher’s Information Sheets provide: Information on the collections Ideas for pre and post visit activities Guidance for the gallery activities Activity Sheets Most are to be used by pupils in the Museum Include a number of activities for them to carry out in the galleries Can be photocopied 1 Practical Information for your visit Planning your visit We strongly recommend that teachers visit the Activity Sheet symbols Museum prior to their trip to: Discuss/Talk about Meet with the Learning & Access Officer to discuss your needs during your visit Act out/Mime Carry out a risk assessment Write/Tick Go through the site’s Health & Safety Guidance folder Draw There is a comprehensive health and safety folder on site that we recommend all group leaders read Think about through. This includes information covering fire and accident procedures, CRB information, and risk assessments for the site and all activities led by staff on the site. We urge all group leaders to read Opening times through this file as part of their planning. There is a sheet that we ask you to sign once you have. Tuesday-Saturday 10.00am-17.00pm Sunday 13.00pm-17.00pm How to book The Museum is closed on Mondays except for You will need to book at least two weeks in Bank Holiday weekends. advance, providing the Museum with the following information: Education Services The name and address of the group with Armley Mills Museum offers a wide range of contact name and telephone number services to learners and groups of all ages, The date of the visit including: The time of arrival and departure Interactive workshops for school groups The number and age of the group Practical workshops led by freelancers The nature of the visit e.g. Investigate! From Out of school and extended schools activities Fleece to Fashion or Gott’s Challenges Work experience placements (Key Stage 4 Any special needs your group may have and above) Any facilities you may want to use e.g. lunch Volunteer placements (Key Stage 4 and above) space Support from learning staff such as Bookings should be made through the learning consultations and resources and access office on 0113 224 4368. Online resources via the Leeds Museums and Galleries website and the MyLearning website Contact Information A fully equipped learning centre with IT For general information about the Museum: equipment Telephone: 0113 263 7861 Event led projects and activities i.e. the Big Fax: 0113 224 4365 Draw and National Science Week Email: [email protected] Website: www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills 2 For young learners: Access Workshops for playgroups/schemes Parking Guide dogs admitted Holiday Activities Accessible Education Family Fun Days toilet room Male Drink vending Under 5s Club ‘Little Bobbins’ toilet machine Female Shop Getting to the Museum toilet From Leeds City Centre, follow signs for the A65 Wheelchair Staff available ramp to assist to Otley and the Airport. Lift Picnic area Approximately one mile from the inner ring road, turn left at a set of traffic lights (by the Harley Wheelchairs available Davidson Garage) onto Canal Road. The museum car park is 400 yards along on the Eating Facilities right, is free and accommodates up to 100 cars. There is disabled parking in front of the museum, There are limited lunch spaces in the Museum for which can be accessed by going down the groups to eat. Please check availability and reserve driveway. a space when making your booking. There are tea/coffee making facilities and a vending machine Buses from Leeds city centre are the No. 5 leaving in the Museum. from Duncan Street and the No. 67 leaving from Eastgate. Please check that this information is The Museum Code correct before your journey. Teachers remain responsible for their group and When you arrive at the Museum, you will need to their behaviour at all times during led and self-led make yourself known to the welcome staff at the visits. We do not wish for pupils to be restricted by front desk. severe behaviour policies, as you will be able to see from our policy on conduct. We do however, Kir Burley Road hope that each child will be able to learn and have kstall Ro River Aire ad A65 a positive experience on their visit. Please refer to the health and safety guidance Vue Cinema folder for further details of the conduct policy. Armley A briefing sheet for teachers is also available on Mills request or can be downloaded from www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills. Leeds and Liverpool Canal Canal Road A647 Armley Road 3 Armley Mills – The Collections The galleries at Armley Mills represent a number of different collections, highlighting the industries on which the success of the city and district of Leeds has been built. These collections, housed in the Galleries and other areas in the Mill, include: Textiles Tailoring Relating to the Museum’s past as Clothing Mill Manager’s Parlour a Woollen Mill Weaver’s Cottage Kitchen Colour Garden Optics & Cinematography 1930s Replica Cinema Relating to other important Printing Tools* industries in Models* Small Engines Leeds Machine Tools Locomotives * Temporary Exhibition Gallery Did you know…? Optics and Cinematography Interesting facts about the collections include: The first ever moving image or ‘film’ was taken by a French man here in Leeds. Textiles Armley Mills Museum has its very own Armley Mills was once the largest woollen replica 1930s cinema. mill in the world, exporting its goods to North and South America, Europe and the Tailoring Far East. Ever heard of the expression, ‘The Full Tools and Machine Tools Monty’? Montague Burton of Burtons, founded in Leeds, offered men the chance During the nineteenth century many small, to buy a full suit, which included jacket, and some giant, engineering companies trousers, waistcoat, shirt and underwear grew in Leeds, exporting locomotives, which was a new concept back in the 1950s. cranes, traction engines and other heavy Thus, it is assumed that this is where the engineering products around the nation term ‘the Full Monty’ originated. Burton and around the globe. menswear still exists as a high street retailer in Britain today. Printing Leeds has had its own newspaper since Water Power 1718 when the ‘Leeds Mercury’ first came If there was too much rain, water levels into print. Waddingtons (yes Waddingtons would grow too high and the backflow who made the game Monopoly) was a would cause the waterwheels at the Mills to Leeds-based company. stop working. Steam Power For more information on the Mill, its collections, There were several companies in Hunslet figures and history, have a look on our websites: which built steam powered machines that www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills went all over the world. www.mylearning.org 4 Background Information The Birth of Armley Mills No man was ever more regarded or The earliest record of Armley Mills dates from the esteemed in his circle than Mr Gott.’ middle of the sixteenth century when local clothier From the Obituary of Benjamin Gott (1840) Richard Booth leased ‘Armley Millnes’ from Henry Saville. A document of 1707 provides the first Working from Home description of the mills. ‘That Fulling Mill in Although Colonel Lloyd re-built Armley Mills in Armley…containing two wheels and four stocks… 1788 he did not personally run the Mills, instead also the water corn mill and all the fulling mills they were leased to Israel Burrows and Christopher adjoining… containing one wheel and two stocks.’ Hill. Hill was later replaced by Israel’s brother John By 1788 Armley was equipped with five and the pair lived in two newly built semi-detached waterwheels powering eighteen fulling stocks. houses above the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. ‘Armley Mill…no situation in the West The central part of the house was composed of Riding of Yorkshire is superior if any living rooms and bedrooms, while the shorter wings at either end contained kitchen, cellars, and equal’ on the first floors loom shops where the brothers Notice of Sale, Leeds Intelligence, 5th February 1788 are believed to have made their own cloth for fulling in the nearby Mills. The current displays are Founding Fathers not intended to reproduce the original décor but In 1788, Armley Mills was bought by Colonel to highlight the differences in lifestyle between a Thomas Lloyd, who turned it into the world’s wealthy mill manager and a working class weaver. largest fulling mill. Lloyd was a Leeds cloth merchant who had prospered and risen to Full Steam Ahead become Deputy Lieutenant Armley Mills prospered under Gott’s management Benjamin of the West Riding and exporting its wares to North and South America, Gott Commander of the Leeds Europe and the Far East. Gott became one of the Volunteer Infantry. In 1804, largest employers in Britain, as well as one of the Benjamin Gott agreed to most wealthy.

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