Friends Of 
The Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes
Events and lectures are FREE to friends, except where stated.
Visitors are welcome to attend lectures.
(Admission (£1.00)
All events at 7.30pm at DCM unless otherwise stated
Why not join the Friends
- Annual Subscription £5.00
- With free entrance to the museum and the majority of Friends’ Meetings throughout the year
- Free annual magazine booklet NOW THEN
To join the Friends or for more information visit the information desk at the museum or
E-mail: dcm@yorkshiredales.org.uk
Friday 16th November 2007
Traditional Houses in Wensleydale
- Don Maclennan – National Park Authority
End of 2007 programme
Friday 19th October 2007
Annual General Meeting
‘The Story of Bainbridge Electric Lighting Company’.
Peter Leyland will be giving a talk on the story of the Bainbridge Electric Lighting Company at the AGM of the Friends of the Dales Countryside Museum (7.30 pm on 19th October at the Hawes Museum, visitors are welcome to attend, admission £1)
The Company was set up in 1912 as a partnership between his grandfather, John Leyland, and John Cockbone who owned the High Mill in Bainbridge. The water turbine and generating station were installed there by William Handley Burton who had started the first hydro electric company in Wensleydale in 1910 in Askrigg.
The Bainbridge undertaking was carried on by Peters father, John Tiplady Leyland, until his death in 1942 and then by his mother, Isobel Leyland until it was nationalised and taken over by the North Eastern Electricity Board in 1950.
Friday 21st September 2007
‘Evolution of the use of water power in the Dales’.
- There will be a friends Photographic Exhibition from 19th September to 7th October.
Water Power in the Dales at the Dales Countryside Museum
A photographic Exhibition and a walk through the history of waterpower in the dales 
- From 19th September until 7th October
- Free Admission
- Historic Dales Mills
- How waterpower was used in the mills
- Waterpower in leadmining
- Working Dales mills
Lectures at the museum Guided visits to the watermills of Bainbridge
- Afternoons of Sunday 23rd and Wedneday 26th September
- The museum also has a water power exhibit.
Saturday 3rd February 2007
Social evening with dinner and entertainment on a 1960’s theme
- Fancy Dress optional
- 7.30 for 8 at Beckindales Hawes
- Parking at DCM
- Tickets available at DCM from December 2006
- Telephone 01969 666210
Wednesday 7th March 2007
The Man who would be King
- By Rudyard Kipling
- A classic tale of adventure on the North West Frontier
- Admission £7.50 (under 16 £5.00)
- Tickets available at DCM
- Telephone 01969 666210
Friday 16th March 2007
Forgotten uses and lost memories
- Some mystery objects in the Swaledale Museum
Friday 20th April 2007
‘Wireless in the 1920’s how we used to listen’
Friday 18th May 2007
‘Travelling through the dales’. Early Tourism
Wednesday 6th June 2007
- Visit to York by coach at £10 per head, including access to Borthwick Institute Records Office and York Minster Library or indulge your own interest.
- Details to be announced later.
Friday 20th July 2007
‘GIFT DAY’
Bring your donations and enjoy a social evening with a glass of wine and a talk by Dulcie Lewis
Not just Yorkshire Pudding
- A light-hearted history of food and drink in Yorkshire.