Calendar

St George’s Church will be holding a Flower Festival on May 4th, 5th and 6th from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm. Our theme is The British Countryside. Homemade cakes, soup and baps will be served plus hot beef baps on Monday.

On Saturday the 11th The Derby Bach Choir are holding a Come and Sing day starting at 1.30 p.m.. If you would like to sing, please contact Jenny Casboult on 01335 350285.
If you would just like to hear the final performance it will be at 6.00 p.m.

A charge for the performance of £5 at the door.

The programme includes Mozart’s Mass in C (Coronation and Vespers).

Conductor James Foulds

Organist Tom Corfield

Chamber Choir Viva La Musica has become recognised locally as one of the more exciting vocal ensembles performing across ​the East Midlands.  The Loughborough-based choir attracts singers from a wide area.  Its repertoire ranges across the centuries and embraces both sacred and secular music in various styles. Simon Lumby conducts the choir.

‘Now is the month of Maying’ is a concert celebrating nature and the season.  It will include a selection of madrigals and works by Lauridsen, Finzi and Rachmaninoff.

This late-afternoon concert will last approximately an hour and a quarter. There will be refreshments to follow.

A diverse selection of 12 gardens will open during the Milton Open Gardens event this year. Gardens will be open on 2 June in the afternoon between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm in the normally quiet hamlet of Milton, South Derbyshire. There will be 9 along Main Street and 3 at The Waterworks. This year there are 3 gardens new to the event and one that has been ‘resting’ for a few years.

Sizes vary from a small courtyard to extensive gardens with styles ranging from cottage garden, low maintenance and some with more formal features.

There will be free parking in the centre of Milton and at The Waterworks. Admission is £5.00 for adults, and accompanied children under 16 are free. (Some gardens do not allow dogs). Tickets are available on the day adjacent to the car park.

Expect to find trees, shrubs, lawns, flowers, vegetables and ponds – something for everyone, and all the gardens, in Milton and at The Waterworks, are within easy walking distance of each other.

There will be live music courtesy of Boss&CO with refreshments including homemade cakes available in the Village Hall, with Tombola, stalls and plants for sale on the grass opposite.

Profits are in aid of the local Air Ambulance and Milton Community Lunch Club.

A warm Milton welcome awaits visitors old and new.

Coffee Club meets regularly on the first and third Tuesday of the month but please check the calendar for any variations.

This week’s get-together is High Tea and you are asked to assemble at 3:30 pm for a 4:00 pm start. More details later.

Monies raised from this event will go to The Alzheimer’s Society.

Coffee Club meets regularly on the first and third Tuesday of the month but please check the calendar for any variations.

Coffee Club meets regularly on the first and third Tuesday of the month but please check the calendar for any variations.

Coffee Club meets regularly on the first and third Tuesday of the month but please check the calendar for any variations.

A concert of popular, well-loved music, given by the music group from the Swadlincote Oasis.

Coffee Club meets regularly on the first and third Tuesday of the month but please check the calendar for any variations.

Alison Thornhill will examine how Ticknall Limeyards evolved from a warm sea to a tranquil woodland from prehistory to the present day.

The talk will reveal some of the natural gems in this intriguing place.

Coffee Club meets regularly on the first and third Tuesday of the month but please check the calendar for any variations.

Coffee Club meets regularly on the first and third Tuesday of the month but please check the calendar for any variations.

Performed in Victorian Mourning dress we explore Warwick Castle and Calke Abbey’s “not so living history”.

The secrets that lie beneath and the inhabitants that still occupy the rooms, corridors and grounds of two very different Stately Homes as witnessed by myself, colleagues and guests.

At a slightly later time than usual, we will be serving

Pork and Stuffing Rolls with apple and chutneys, followed by Treacle Tart or Parkin.

Much of Melbourne’s history can be told by the story of individual houses in the parish and their occupants. This talk by Melbourne History Group Chairman Philip Heath, given on Saturday, 16 November, at 7:30 pm at Melbourne Assembly Rooms Main, selects twelve of the most interesting ones to prove the point.

Admission is £4 (Under 16s free if accompanied by an adult). Refreshments will be available.

Coffee Club meets regularly on the first and third Tuesday of the month but please check the calendar for any variations.

Christmas time! A look back at some of our Christmas traditions, celebrations and favourite toys!

Enjoy a cracker joke or two, as we reminisce on our Christmases past!