PART of the region’s industrial past is coming back to life.

The restored Gayle Mill, near Hawes in Wensleydale, will be back in action on June 7 and the first Sunday of each month until October.

Each day there will be two special sessions when the Victorian machinery will be used to make some of products which would have been made there in its heyday.

Using the natural water power from Gayle Beck the mill will once again be full of the sounds of traditional joinery.

The different machines will be expertly used by skilled woodworking volunteers to cut, shape and turn the different kinds of timber which will eventually make up the finished articles.

The chairman of the Gayle Mill Trust, William Lambert, said: "One of the main purposes of restoring all the Victorian machinery was precisely to show how the mill worked in days gone by.

"Because we actually did the restoration work on the machines, we know how to recreate that whole feel of a traditional joinery workshop which visitors can now experience for themselves."

Sessions will start at 11am and 2.30pm and will last about two hours.

Tickets, which include light refreshments, are £10 for adults and £5 for children. They are available from the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes - 01969-666210. Some of the areas of the Mill are quite small, so there are only 25 places on each session.