West Riding to West Africa
Date/Time: 25 May 2024 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Venue: Leeds Industrial Museum
Price: Included with admission
Join us for a family-friendly day exploring the incredible story of how engineering linked West Yorkshire and Sierra Leone in West Africa.
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- a pop-up exhibition from the Friends of the Sierra Leone National Railway Museum
- a display of models by William Bickers-Jones of locomotives made in Leeds for the Sierra Leone Government Railway.
- a talk by Helen Ashby, Chair of the Friends of the Sierra Leone National Railway Museum – ‘Leeds to Sierra Leone – the Sierra Leone National Railway Museum’
- a talk by John McGoldrick, Curator of Industrial History at Leeds Industrial Museum, – ‘Leeds’s Engines of Empire’, exploring the colonial legacies of the city’s links with Britain’s former colonies.
- railway films in our ‘Palace Picture Hall’ 1930s cinema.
- children’s activities.
Learn about the industrial heritage of Leeds, the city of 1000 trades, in the Grade II* listed Armley Mills
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