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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.
A Hardy Planters Winter Survival Kit; with Don Whitton, National Collection Holder of Hardy Euphorbia. Sales at this meeting
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!
MEMBERS CHRISTMAS SOCIAL
A Prize Quiz & Festive Supper; For Ticknall Garden Club members and their guests.
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.