Our latest news story, the return of John Wesley's chair to the Dales, come into the Museum to find out more!

Photograph of the Army Recconnaissance Training Corps outside Hill House (now Burgoyne Hotel) in Reeth during the Second World War, sent by Mr Fox who was billeted at the Wesleyan Methodist Sunday School (now the Museum).

Sample of some of the wonderful yarn our new Craftswoman in Residence spins and dyes herself. Come and see Anne Shaw Hewitt in the Museum every Thursday. Her work is for sale direct or from the Museum shop.

Our cleaning squad about to start work, February 2011.
Photo courtesy of Joe Squires, who also helped to do the polishing too!

Alan Vickers ' promised to let you have a photograph of ourselves - Olive Vickers (my mother celebrating her 90th birthday) myself Alan Vickers and my younger son John Vickers. My mother's mother was born a Longstaff. Her father was Christopher Longstaff. They farmed above Langthwaite in Booze.

Robert Longstaff, born in 1835.

Inside Out have arrived in the Museum, with their fantastic photographs taken down in the old local lead mines

Our monthly Knitting Café, July 2010, held in the Museum Shop

Jenna Hewitt with her glamorous peg doll, bought from the Musuem Shop (July 2010)

Pupils from Gunnerside School presenting their Knitting to the Swaledale Museum, with members from Wensleydale Decorative and Fine Arts Society who taught them to knit! 9 June 2010 (Photo by Helen Stronge)

Families Reunited after 400 years! George Buxton (left) and Lawrence Barker (right) together in the Museum. The Barkers brought the Buxtons to Swaledale in the 17th century from Derbyshire, where they used their knowledge of the lead mines to earn a living. 21 June 2010 (Photo by Glenys Marriott)

Anne Hewitt, Christine Price, Rosemary Hawksworth and Marjorie Daniels from the Museum's Knitting Café at Woolfest 25 June 2010 by their demonstration stand.

The Museum Garden end of June, a bumper year for delphiniums!

Some of the samplers from our exhibition 'A Stitch in Time: Samplers from the Dales Past and Present'.

Our Annual Museum Knitting Day, with Galina Khemleva learning Orenberg lace techniques,28 June 2010