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Beautiful view of Melbourne Pool from balustraded terrace running length of 1829 house. The garden drops steeply by paths and steps to a lawn with herbaceous borders and a bank of some 60 shrubs. Numerous paths lead to different areas of the garden, providing varied planting opportunities inc a bog garden, glade, shrubbery, grasses, herb and vegetable garden, rose tunnel, orchard and small woodland.
Musical Showcase by musical group Oasis. An hour of wonderful contemporary music.
Saturday, 19 August at 3 pm.
Afternoon Tea and Cakes. Free entry – Any donations to Chapel funds.
An evening of toe-tapping country music with HARTLAND.
Fundraising in support of Motor Neurone Disease: MY NAME’5 DODDIE Foundation.
Tickets £10 (cash only) available from Ashby Toolbox or at the door.
Opportunity to buy raffle tickets. Prizes included: Sunday lunch for two, 2 tickets to Lyric Rooms tribute night inc meal, Fishing experience for two, Car MOT, Voucher for local café, a bottle of Doddie’5 own tipple.
Please bring your own glasses and drink
For more information contact JChilvers461@gmail.com
There will be a Table Top Sale to raise funds for The Parkinson’s UK Fund. The fundraising event will be held on Thursday, 26th October between 10.00 a.m. and 12.00 Noon at Smisby Village Hall. Attendees will be able to enjoy coffee and freshly baked cakes.
Our annual Christmas Tree Festival will be on December 9th and 10th from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm PLUS a Christmas Bazaar (also in church) on the 9th with Father Christmas Grotto, Preserves, Wreaths, Decorations, Pottery etc etc.
Refreshments will be available on both days of homemade soup and cakes PLUS on Saturday, Homemade Beef Baps.
Our annual Christmas Tree Festival will be on December 9th and 10th from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm PLUS a Christmas Bazaar (also in church) on the 9th with Father Christmas Grotto, Preserves, Wreaths, Decorations, Pottery etc etc.
Refreshments will be available on both days of homemade soup and cakes PLUS on Saturday, Homemade Beef Baps.
A community event to get us into the festive mood, we are holding a Christmas themed Bingo session, on Tuesday, 12 December starting at 2:00 pm at the Methodist Chapel, Ticknall.
Admissioin is free to all although donations are much appreciated.
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.
A concert of popular, well-loved music, given by the music group from the Swadlincote Oasis.
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.
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.
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.
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!
The Pigeon – from the gods to the gutter. Dove of peace or rat with wings? A look at our perceptions and complex relationship with this remarkable bird throughout history.
The Dower House, Church Square, Melbourne, is open for the National Garden Scheme on 15th and 16th February, 10 am – 3.30 pm (gates closing about 4.15 pm). Admission is £8. Children and dogs on leads are welcome and are free of charge.
The Dower House, Church Square, Melbourne, is open for the National Garden Scheme on 15th and 16th February, 10 am – 3.30 pm (gates closing about 4.15 pm). Admission is £8. Children and dogs on leads are welcome and are free of charge.
This is a change of topic. The talk will be “Arming a Knight.” Jed Jaggard will give us a fascinating insight into how armour developed through the ages, with lots of artifacts and objects to see and handle.
The Salvation Army – Danny Wells.
Catherine Booth was fortified with the spirit and convictions of early 19th-century rural Methodism of the Midlands. Having met a kindred spirit in William Booth of Nottingham, they were to take their pre-industrial Methodist creed into the religious and political fulcrum of the East End of London in the second half of the century.
The response of the Booths to the poverty, hunger, squalor and ‘sin’ that they observed all around them, was to create the Salvation Army as a ‘Way out of Darkest England’.
It became the fastest-growing religious movement of late Victorian Britain and is still a religious and social service agency of international importance today.
Labour of Love: The Orton & Spooner Story
These days, there are not that many companies in the fairground game that manufacture rides and shows—and those that do are not exactly household names. But one company is just as famous now as it was in its heyday, in the first half of last century.
On 29 April, Elaine Pritchard offers her presentation on the local, world-renowned fairground company.
Karen Kreft shares some fascinating insights into the people involved in life ‘below stairs’ at Calke Abbey.