🏠 Indoor🆓 Free entryEducational
What’s there
- Limited parking
- Baby changing
- Buggy friendly
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
- SEN friendly
Two Blue Badge bays outside the main entrance only; no other parking on site. Free limited-time bays on Woodsley Road and Belle Vue Road and unlimited free on-street parking off Royal Park Road are a 10-minute walk away.
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
The M&S Archive sits on the Western Campus of the University of Leeds and is the home of the company's heritage collection. Its ground-floor exhibition, called Marks in Time, follows the story of the business from market stall and penny bazaar through to a national high street retailer, using clothing, packaging, food, films, photographs and advertising. Families can handle real and replica objects, dress up in the vintage clothing collection, explore a Penny Bazaar replica and watch short films in a small cinema space. Free sensory backpacks are available from reception for visitors with additional sensory needs. Sparky Saturday events on the second Saturday of each month offer free family activities, and the building is a short walk from the city centre. Allow around an hour for a visit.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
Wet wipes
Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.- I-spy book
- Wet bagFor whatever comes home soaked.
Pocket money purseGift shop answered in advance, in numbers.- Sting relief
Portable phone charger
Rucksack
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Photos: 維基小霸王, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Renée Kools, CC BY 4.0 · yawning hunter, CC BY 2.0
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