Museums in West Yorkshire - Historic House Museums in West Yorkshire, Museums in Bradford, Museums in Leeds, Kirkstall Abbey, Harewood House (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 67. Chapters: Historic house museums in West Yorkshire, Museums in Bradford, Museums in Leeds, Kirkstall Abbey, Harewood House, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Red House Museum, Temple Newsam, Bradford Industrial Museum, Bracken Hall Countryside Centre and Museum, Bankfield Museum, Oakwell Hall, Standedge Tunnels, List of museums in West Yorkshire, Cliffe Castle Museum, Bronte Parsonage Museum, Manor House Museum, Middleton Railway, National Media Museum, Leeds City Museum, Ilkley Toy Museum, Bramham Park, Royal Armouries Museum, Nostell Priory, National Coal Mining Museum for England, Tolson Museum, Thwaite Mills, Leeds Art Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bolling Hall, Bradford, Museum of Rail Travel, The Hepworth Wakefield, East Riddlesden Hall, Cartwright Hall, Wakefield Museum, Henry Moore Foundation, Armley Mills Industrial Museum, Lotherton Hall, Transperience, Thackray Museum, Colne Valley Museum, Shibden Hall, Rugby League Heritage Centre, Eureka , Salts Mill, Hardcastle Crags, Pontefract Museum, Peace Museum, Bradford, The Second World War Experience Centre, Abbey House Museum, Otley Museum. Excerpt: Bradford Industrial Museum, established 1974 in Moorside Mills, Eccleshill, Bradford, United Kingdom, specializes in relics of local industry, especially printing and textile machinery, kept in working condition for regular demonstrations to the public. There is a Horse Emporium in the old canteen block plus a cafe and shop in the mill, and entry is free of charge. In Yorkshire, a mill is a textile factory. The original mill was built by John Moore in 1875 for worsted spinning. In 1919 the clock tower was built as a war memorial to those lost in World War I, and two floors were added. The mill was later sold to W & J Whitehead, who ran the ring spinning machine which is still in the spinning gallery. In 1970 Bradford C...