West Riding to West Africa

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Canal Road, Leeds, LS12 2QF

01133783173

Leeds Inspired

West Riding to West Africa

25th May 2024

Join us for a family-friendly day exploring the incredible story of how engineering linked West Yorkshire and Sierra Leone in West Africa. Activities will include: a pop-up exhibition from the Friends of the Sierra Leone National Railway Museuma 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.