>>hartley: what happened in 1992 was that after a rationalization done by dairy crest, they decidedto close the creamery here at haws... >>reporter: which was bad news because 59 people employed here were made redundant and the creamerywas to be moved away from this countryside town to yorkshire's traditional rival...lancashire! >>hartley: although the 59 were made redundant , my self and 4 other colleagues came together to buy the creamery from dairy crest. and it was actually november 1992 that we succeeded in that missionand we took over this site here. and basically we started off with a very small workforce. >>reporter: and thus the wensleydale creamery at haws was reformed. >>hartley: and by 1992-1993 which was our first year of trading we had a turnover of 2.8 million pounds. >>reporter: ...a little over 4 and a half million dollars. today the creamery employs 200 full timestaff, has a healthy order book and even a visitor centre attracting hundreds of thousands of tourists. >>andrew: it very much tends to draw the public to our visitor centre which you can see behind me and we