The Armley Mills Leeds Industrial Museum is a Grade II listed, and is in  Armley, West Leeds. The earliest records about the mill date from the 1500's when Richard Booth a local clothier leased the mill from Henry Saville. Colonel Thomas Lloyd bought the mill in 1788 and turned in into one of the world largest mills.  Benjamin Gott then bought it off Lloyd in 1805 and built the structure  we see today to replace the first which was almost entirely destroyed by a  fire. Over the years the mill has been leased or run by different people while under their ownership. After Gotts death ownership passed to his sons. It closed as a commercial mill in 1969. The building  was taken over by Leeds City Council and reopened as a museum of industrial heritage in 1982 and houses collections of textile machinery and railway equipment amongst others.

Mills were not pleasant places to work, condition were poor, and working hours were long. Not only adults were employed at the mill but there there was child labour too.  Exploitation and abuse were sometimes common place particularly to the children, accidents (sometimes horrific like getting tangled in machinery) happened and so unfortunately did death.

The mill is said to be extremely haunted with lots of paranormal activity, different sounds are heard such as the running of machinery, shadowy figures have been seen and people have reported to being touched.

So are you brave enough to join us as we explore and investigate Armley Mills.