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Coffee Club meets regularly on the first and third Tuesday of the month but please check the calendar for any variations.
Heath Wood and Robin Wood Wednesday, 22 March starting from Ticknall Village Hall at 9:30 am. We will leave Ticknall via the Grange over the fields to Foremark through the grounds of Foremark Hall into Heath Wood taking the footpath to Robin Wood and back to Ticknall. Distance 6/7 miles, about 2 and a half hours walking.
Everyone is welcome to join us. Just turn up at the Village Hall before the start at 9:30 am.
Gresley Male Voice Choir And Boundary Singers Proudly present their joint Springtime concert
At St Helens Church 3 Lower Church St Ashby-De-La Zouch. LE65 1AA
Saturday 22nd April 2023 at 7.15 pm start
Tickets £9 Ticket details please call Clive on 07359054834
Or Joyce on 07753700940
Our next guided walk will be on Wednesday 26th April when we will be visiting the stunning Calke bluebells, leaving Ticknall Village Hall at 9:30 am. Leave Ticknall via Chapel Street – skirting Robin Wood – crossing the main road to St Brides Farm, Robinsons Hill in Melbourne, and walk alongside Staunton Harold Reservoir and Calke through the woods and the Bluebells before returning to Ticknall.
It will be about two and a half hours of walking, 5/6 miles, with a coffee and comfort stop at the Reservoir coffee shop. All are welcome. Just meet up at Ticknall Village Hall before we leave at 9:30 am.
Charles booth centre are excited to welcome Gresley Male Voice Choir with guest soprano Steph Anderson at The Green, Thringstone LE67 8NR Saturday, 29 April 2023 at 7:15 PM. Tickets £8 for tickets please call 07736932923 or 01530812612 or the Charles Booth centre on 01530 222337
Garden Club annual event.
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.
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.
Ticknall Garden Club has arranged a coach trip to RHS Garden Bridgewater on Saturday August 5th. The coach fare is £25 with free entrance to the Garden as the Club is affiliated to the RHS.
The coach will depart from Ticknall Village Hall at 9 a.m. prompt and return at about 6:30 p.m.
Ticknall Garden Club members and family and friends are invited to join us for the day.
If you are interested and have not already added your name to the list please let us know by email to ticknallgardenclub@gmail.com . Not a member? Contact us at the same email address.
Payment will be appreciated at our meeting on June 13th or as soon as possible thereafter. Cheques made payable to Ticknall Garden Club can also be sent to our Treasurer, Pat Chinnery, The Orchards, Doctors Lane, Breedon on the Hill, Derby, DE73 8AQ .
Guided Walk and Brunch or Just Brunch. Saturday, October 14th.
Meet opposite Calke Park Entrance at 9.45am for 10am start. All welcome including dogs. Brunch will be served from 11 am at St George’s Church.
With Geoff Hodge, freelance gardening and horticultural writer, author, editor and broadcaster.
Members’ Christmas Social with returning Speaker & Horticulturist, Doug Stewart.
Yes, it’s that time again! This year’s big event is almost upon us, and at a mere £15 a pop, is not to be missed.
There will be music and glancing, so tinsel your zimmer and don’t forget your meds.
Please confirm with Mary Magson or one of the team to secure your place at our 2023 Festive Lunch.
The Dower House garden has been actively developed over recent years and is looking better than ever.
Admission is £8, children are free, the doors open at 10 am and close at 4 pm. There is no need to book in advance although if you wish you can do so by going to the NGS website. The National Gardens Scheme receive all the proceeds from admissions and teas to support their charitable giving to (mainly) Macmillan, Marie Curie, Hospice UK, The Queen’s Nursing Institute, the Carers Trust and Parkinson’s UK.
The Dower House garden has been actively developed over recent years and is looking better than ever.
Admission is £8, children are free, the doors open at 10 am and close at 4 pm. There is no need to book in advance although if you wish you can do so by going to the NGS website. The National Gardens Scheme receive all the proceeds from admissions and teas to support their charitable giving to (mainly) Macmillan, Marie Curie, Hospice UK, The Queen’s Nursing Institute, the Carers Trust and Parkinson’s UK.
With National Trust volunteer, Roy Mitchell
We will be serving a delicious selection of
- Soups and Breads
- Cheese and Wine
- Coffee and Cakes
Encouraging Bees into the Garden; with award-winning David McDowell, ‘The Bee Farmer’.
Sales at this meeting.
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