The pom-poms made by the Robin Hood Primary School community have been safely delivered to Armley Mills. Three hundred pom-poms in different colours were taken to the mill where Sarah Barton is going to turn them into a sheep which will be displayed alongside other pom-pom sheep made by groups in Leeds in an exhibition to celebrate British wool.
Whilst we were there we dropped into a workshop where we discovered some Victorian games and made a splendid peg doll.
We wandered through the old rooms looking at the original sewing machines and looms. We dressed in Victorian clothes and read all about how life in the mill was when it was once the largest woollen mill in the world, exporting its goods to North and South America, Europe and the Far East.
We had a lovely afternoon and cannot wait to go back to see our Robin Hood Primary School Sheep in the exhibition! You can visit Armley Mills website at
www.leeds.gov.uk/armleymills. Watch this space for exhibition details.
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