"It would also appear that the "Model" band had a completely separate identity to the "Ribblesdale" band and contrary to earlier information the two bands did not merge at all, but the "model" band gradually declined and folded sometime in the mid-1870s. The only information I can glean as to the origins of the Old/Ribblesdale/Prize Bands are from "the mid-1840's" and the names were somewhat interchangeable. Quite where the "Ribblesdale" name came from I haven't been able to determine, but Barnoldswick is located just off the Ribble Valley of Lancashire and there was a local family, the Lords Ribblesdale of Gisburn Park who had some association with the band."

This band folded in 1965, but was revived in 1968 as the present Barnoldswick Band.