
Football Works
Abbey House Museum, Featured, Industrial History, Social HistoryCurator Lucy Moore examines one leaflet from our social history collection and reveals a little known corner of Leeds’ sporting past.

Sporting chance to relive city’s Olympic glory days
Abbey House Museum, Abbey House Museum News, NewsGenerations of the city’s sporting heroes are being celebrated in a new exhibition looking at the history of competition, games and play in Leeds.

Things can only get batter as vintage Leeds chippy stars in new exhibition
Abbey House Museum News, NewsOne of the city’s very first chippies is among the fascinating tales featured in a new exhibition exploring the people and places that helped forge a Leeds community.
Hardisty’s Fisheries became one of the earliest places for locals to…

Skating in Edwardian Leeds
Abbey House Museum, Featured, Leeds City Museum, Projects & Partnerships, Social HistoryIn 1909, there were 5 skating rinks in Leeds. Using historic maps, Catherine Robins has found out exactly where they were and what became of the buildings after they closed.

Festive favourite toys unwrapped at Abbey House Museum
Abbey House Museum News, NewsSome of the most sought-after stocking fillers of the past century have gone on show in a nostalgic new toy display at Abbey House Museum in Leeds.
Vintage childhood favourites of all shapes and sizes, dating back more than a hundred years…