Leeds Industrial Museum

Today I crossed the mysterious bridge between Frankie & Bennie's and Aire of the Dog to the Leeds Industrial Museum (Armley Mills). This was a great little museum and for £1.50 you couldn't really complain!

The museum covers the cloth industry in Leeds, Film and Cinema, Letterpress, Tools, Engines and Machinery. It's main concentration is on the clothing industry as that was the original use for the mill. It has hundreds of machines on display and there are loads of pictures of the mills in operation.

The museum has its own cinema in which it plays a video on the industries in Leeds, mainly from the Victorian and Edwardian periods. The entire video is made up of period footage.
A section of interest to me was of course the Letter/Printing Press section. In it are two large chests of drawers which wide shallow drawers which would once have been filled with lead presses for each of the popular "founts" (fonts). A fount was made up of more than just the 26 letters of the alphabet, if I remember correctly, each fount had 34 "e"s alone. I was suprised to see labels on the drawers for Gill Sans and Caslon.
Layout of a drawer.