TO BOOK : 01969 667320 or EMAIL: [email protected]
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 1st February 11.00am & 2.30pm £12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of each month. A two
hour tour where you get to see the original 1879 machinery working!
Includes light refreshments.
Nest Box Building – Wednesday 18th February 2015
10.00am – 1.00pm Admission for Adults £3 Children Free
Nest Boxes £6 each
As part of National Nest Box Week, come and have a go at
making your own nest box to take away and hang in your
garden.
An Introduction to Ceramic Button making – Saturday 28th February
2015 10.00am – 4.30pm £50 including materials
A new course for 2015. Under the expert tuition of
our ceramic button maker, you will design and
make your own set of buttons and have a unique
collection of buttons which can adorn any fine item
of clothing or upholstery. Bring along an old apron
& towel, cutting knife & biscuit cutters. All tuition,
clay and lunch is included in this full day course.
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 1st March 2015 11.00am & 2.30pm £12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of each month. A two
hour tour where you get to see the original 1879 machinery working!
Includes light refreshments.
Hands-on Heritage Wheelwrighting - Saturday 21st March 2015
9:00am – 4:30pm £75 per person including all tuition and lunch
You can join us, as did Guy Martin in Channel 4’s ‘How
Britain Worked’ to have a real hands-on experience in
making a traditional steel-hooped hot bonded cartwheel
from scratch. You could even have a ride on his famous
Gayle Mill wooden bicycle. All tuition and lunch included.
Gayle Mill Opens for one hour tours – Monday 23rd
March 2015 at 1.00pm & 3.00pm £6 per person,
children 16 & under Free
Gayle Mill reopens for one hour tours on Monday 23rd
March at 1.00pm & 3.00pm. Guided Tours run daily
from Sunday to Friday each week until Friday 2nd
October 2015.
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 5th April 2015
11.00am & 2.30pm £12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of
each month. A two hour tour where you get to see the
original 1879 machinery working! Includes light
refreshments.
Willow Plant Supports – Saturday 18th April 10.00am – 4.00pm £65
Enjoy an inspiring day for making garden structures,
willow edgings and plant supports. You’ll master some
simple techniques of weaving and preparing willow rods
and walk away with your own garden supports and
structures to help you get your garden in bloom! All
tuition, materials and lunch included for this spring
activity.
Hands-on Heritage Introduction to Blacksmithing – Sunday 26th April
2015 10:30am – 4:30pm £95 per person
Adrian Wood is an expert Blacksmith
well-known to enthusiasts at Gayle Mill.
His courses are always very popular
because his tuition style, a blend of
explanation and demonstration, makes
the process of hot forging and shaping
the steel seem so easy! Every one
attending this course works with their
own forge and has an opportunity to
learn how to spread, bend, taper, split,
hot punch, and thicken steel in a full
day’s workshop which will include a
much-needed hearty lunch, all materials
to take home your own hand-crafted key ring and clothes hooks.
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 3rd May 2015 11.00am & 2.30pm £12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of each month. A two
hour tour where you get to see the original 1879 machinery working!
Includes light refreshments.
Hands-on Heritage Wheelwrighting - Saturday 9th May 2015
9:00am – 4:30pm £75 per person including all tuition and lunch
You can join us, as did Guy Martin in Channel 4’s ‘How Britain
Worked’ to have a real hands-on experience in making a
traditional steel-hooped hot bonded cartwheel from scratch.
You could even have a ride on his famous Gayle Mill wooden
bicycle. All tuition and lunch included.
Hands-on Heritage Introduction to Relief Wood Carving Saturday 16th
May 2015 10:30am – 4:30pm £65 per person
A superb day of wood carving under the
expert tuition of our visiting Wood Carver,
Peter Berry.
All tuition, materials and lunch included
in this rewarding day.
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 7th June 2015 11.00am & 2.30pm £12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of each month. A two
hour tour where you get to see the original 1879 machinery working!
Includes light refreshments.
Hands-on Heritage Introduction to Blacksmithing – Sunday 14th June
2015 10:30am – 4:30pm £95 per person
Adrian Wood is an expert Blacksmith
well-known to enthusiasts at Gayle Mill.
His courses are always very popular
because his tuition style, a blend of
explanation and demonstration, makes
the process of hot forging and shaping
the steel seem so easy! Every one
attending this course works with their
own forge and has an opportunity to
learn how to spread, bend, taper, split,
hot punch, and thicken steel in a full
day’s workshop which will include a
much-needed hearty lunch, all materials
to take home your own hand-crafted key ring and clothes hooks.
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 5th July 2015 11.00am & 2.30pm £12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of each month. A two
hour tour where you get to see the original 1879 machinery working!
Includes light refreshments.
Hands-on Heritage Woodworking Experience Day – Saturday 11th July
9.00am – 5.00pm £150 per person
Come for a full day at the mill and with expert tuition learn how to use some
of the Victorian Machinery here at
the mill. You will receive one to
one guidance throughout the day
in how to turn wood on a lathe,
use a circular saw, process wood
on the planer thicknesser, operate
the bandsaw and at the end of the
day produce some stunning
bespoke items of woodwork to take
home and keep. All tuition,
materials, lunch and other
refreshments are included in this
unique experience day at t’mill.
TO BE CONFIRMED: Wire Birds – Saturday18th
July 2015 – 10.00am – 4.30pm £60 per person
Come and enjoy all the fun of making a wire bird and
owning your own specimen of poultry without the
need to feed it. Once made your wire bird can peck
around your garden or observe life inside your home.
All tuition, materials and lunch is included.
Corsages, Buttonholes & Headdresses – Saturday 1st August 2015 –
10.00am – 4.30pm £50 per person
We are delighted to introduce this new course for 2015, a
trained florist will show you how to make your own corsages,
buttonholes and headdress using the best summer flowers
available. (You can even bring your own flowers from the
garden too!) Ideal for the next wedding you attend wearing
your own floral arrangement! All tuition, materials and
lunch included in this one-off summer course!
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 2nd August 2015 11.00am & 2.30pm £12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of each month. A two
hour tour where you get to see the original 1879 machinery working!
Includes light refreshments.
Make a Pig in a Day – Saturday 15th August 2015
10:00am – 4:00pm. £65 per person
Back again by popular demand, our expert will
show you how to make your very own willow pig,
yours to trot away with you at the end of the
course and a wonderful addition to any family
home or garden! All materials, tuition and lunch
included.
COME AND VISIT US ON THE GAYLE MILL STAND AT –
REETH SHOW, MONDAY 31ST AUGUST 2015
MUKER SHOW WEDNESDAY 2ND SEPTEMBER 2015
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 6th September 2015 11.00am & 2.30pm
£12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of each month. A two
hour tour where you get to see the original 1879 machinery working!
Includes light refreshments.
Hands-on Heritage Advanced Blacksmithing – Sunday 13th September
2015 10:30am – 4:30pm £95 per person
Adrian Wood is an expert Blacksmith
well-known to enthusiasts at Gayle Mill.
His courses are always very popular
because his tuition style, a blend of
explanation and demonstration, makes
the process of hot forging and shaping
the steel seem so easy!
Take Blacksmithing to the next level and
work on more advanced techniques.
Return for another full day with our
experts Adrian and Lee, here at Gayle
Mill. All tuition, materials and lunch
included.
Hands-on Heritage Woodworking Experience Day – Saturday 19th
September 9.00am – 5.00pm £150 per person
Come for a full day at the mill and
with expert tuition learn how to
use some of the Victorian
Machinery here at the mill. You
will receive one to one guidance
throughout the day in how to turn
wood on a lathe, use a circular
saw, process wood on the planer
thicknesser, operate the bandsaw
and at the end of the day produce
some stunning bespoke items of
woodwork to take home and keep.
All tuition, materials, lunch and
other refreshments are included in
this unique experience day at t’mill.
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 4th October 11.00am & 2.30pm £12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of each month. A two
hour tour where you get to see the original 1879 machinery working!
Includes light refreshments.
Hands-on Heritage Wheelwrighting - Saturday 10th October 2015
9:00am – 4:30pm £75 per person including all tuition and lunch
You can join us, as did Guy Martin in Channel 4’s ‘How
Britain Worked’ to have a real hands-on experience in
making a traditional steel-hooped hot bonded cartwheel
from scratch. You could even have a ride on his famous
Gayle Mill wooden bicycle. All tuition and lunch included.
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 1st November 2015 11.00am & 2.30pm
£12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of each month. A two
hour tour where you get to see the original 1879 machinery working!
Includes light refreshments.
Gayle Mill Christmas Fayre – Saturday 28th November 2015
10.00am – 4.00pm – Admission Adults £2.50
Children 5-16 Year Free
Our Annual Christmas Fayre
rounds off the year; come and
enjoy a glass of mulled wine and
a mince pie whilst choosing
those special Christmas gifts.
Our range of wooden and craft
products tenderly made by our
own volunteers will be on sale,
together with craft demonstrations by our expert tutors.
Order and collect your unique Gayle Mill Christmas Trees.
Lots of festive fun under one roof!
Traditional Christmas Greenery Wreaths & Table Decorations –
Saturday 5th December 2015 10.00am – 4.00pm £60 per person
Just in time for the festive season,
come along to our last course of the
year and learn how to make a
Christmas greenery wreath, build your
own wreath and add holly and
sparkles for display indoors or
outdoors. In the afternoon create
festive table decorations for your
Christmas table. You will be shown
how to decorate your own table display with ribbons, bows and anything that
sparkles! All tuition, materials and a festive lunch is included.
Demonstration Tours – Sunday 6th December 2015 11.00am & 2.30pm
£12
Come and join our Demonstration Tours first Sunday of each month. A two
hour tour where you get to see the original 1879 machinery working!
Includes light refreshments.
TO BOOK FOR COURSES AND EVENTS
Telephone: 01969 667320 OR EMAIL: [email protected]
All Courses will run subject to a minimum number attending.
To keep up to date:
Visit Gayle Mill website: www.gaylemill.org.uk find us on
Gayle Mill, Mill Lane, Gayle, Hawes, North Yorkshire DL8 3RZ
Claire Lambert, Manager
November 2014