Royal Armouries

 Wednesday 29th January 2025.                Royal Armouries 

For their end of January outing the Lads have decided to visit the Royal Armouries, an impressive building situated in the old Dock Land area of the city of Leeds. As per usual most of the lads meet up at the railway station in the city centre, on this occasion it would be Derek, John, Dave, Glenn and Mark, with Keith and Brian meeting them at the venue a little later.

The first five making their way from the station and on through the riverside streets in the direction of the Armouries Building, admiring the various other buildings as they traveled along nearby the river.

Once outside the entrance a few moments were spent waiting for Keith to arrive, a time of 11 o’clock had been suggested , some five minutes later and we were inside the building and deciding our plan of action so to speak, it was up to the 2 nd floor and join a small group watching and listening to a person talking about the various firearms that had been used in the Wild West period of America, it proved to be very informative and well presented. 

Moving on now and we were left to wonder around the numerous exhibits on display here in this interesting building, next we were invited to witness a demonstration of swordsmanship from a bygone era ably performed by two experienced professionals, good to have watched the action . Brian had now joined us at this point.

From here we continued our journey on towards an exhibition of World War 1 firepower and the advancement of the different weaponry , rather lethal to say the least.

With time advancing and the clocks almost at 1:15 we left the building and headed for a lunchtime meal, a couple of suggestions we’re considered before we eventually made or way to a local Pizza Express outlet and chose what they had to offer, our choices made and now time to reflect upon our experience of the Royal Armouries etc. I think we all enjoyed this brief visit to the Royal Armouries and found it most interesting and informative to say the least.

Lunchtime over and time to say goodbye to Keith and Brian at this point, the rest of us headed for the riverbank just in time to board the river taxi that would transport us back in the direction of the railway station, a journey of some 15 minutes or so. A different aspect to look at from the river as we passed under the infamous Leeds bridge and a couple more besides before reaching our designated mooring point close to the railway station. After disembarking our river taxi we now said goodbye to Mark, he was off into the city, the rest of us heading up the escalators and on into the station, at this point is was farewell to all as we took our respective train journeys home.

Yet another great day out with the Lads. 

Cheers Everyone .