The Black Dyke Mills Band has been played on NTS in shows including Westward Ho! w/ Ashley Wales, featured first on 29 February 2024. Songs played include Variations On 'The Shining River' Op. 101.

In 1816 a brass and reed band was founded by Peter Wharton in the Yorkshire village of Queenshead, ­later to become Queensbury. John Foster, apart from being the founder of Black Dyke Mills, played French Horn in this band. It has been said on many occasions that Black Dyke was formed from it, however this is not strictly true, as "Peter Wharton’s band went out of existence through loss of members"….