A NORTH mill is one of 12 buildings on the register that will compete in the second series of the BBC programme Restoration.

Viewers will get the chance to vote for vital work to be carried out on the 18th Century Gayle Mill, near Hawes, in Upper Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.

Funding has been secured to pay for renovation work to turn it into a learning centre.

But the North-East Civic Trust has been unable to find the money to restore the water system at the 250-year-old mill, the oldest surviving one of its type in the country.

The new series of Restoration will start on BBC2 on July 13.

Among other projects aiming to win the national vote are a former grammar school in Birmingham, a mine in Cornwall and a saltworks in Cheshire.

Published: 01/07/2004