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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.
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.

Every Easter, Ashby Art Club holds its annual Art Exhibition at Ticknall Village Hall, where we display and sell our paintings and works of art. This is our main event of the year and attracts hundreds of visitors. We have become very established here as we have been exhibiting at the village hall at Easter for about 18 years. The exhibition will be open at Ticknall Village Hall from 19th to 21st April 2025 from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm each day. Admission is £1.00. Under-12s get in free.
Together with 100s of paintings and other works of art to see and buy, there will be live demonstrations each day.
In addition to the artwork, Artisan cakes and other refreshments will be available.

Every Easter, Ashby Art Club holds its annual Art Exhibition at Ticknall Village Hall, where we display and sell our paintings and works of art. This is our main event of the year and attracts hundreds of visitors. We have become very established here as we have been exhibiting at the village hall at Easter for about 18 years. The exhibition will be open at Ticknall Village Hall from 19th to 21st April 2025 from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm each day. Admission is £1.00. Under-12s get in free.
Together with 100s of paintings and other works of art to see and buy, there will be live demonstrations each day.
In addition to the artwork, Artisan cakes and other refreshments will be available.

Every Easter, Ashby Art Club holds its annual Art Exhibition at Ticknall Village Hall, where we display and sell our paintings and works of art. This is our main event of the year and attracts hundreds of visitors. We have become very established here as we have been exhibiting at the village hall at Easter for about 18 years. The exhibition will be open at Ticknall Village Hall from 19th to 21st April 2025 from 10:00 am to 4:30 pm each day. Admission is £1.00. Under-12s get in free.
Together with 100s of paintings and other works of art to see and buy, there will be live demonstrations each day.
In addition to the artwork, Artisan cakes and other refreshments will be available.
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.