Ticknall Preservation and Historical Society
Visitors to Ticknall are most welcome to attend the meetings of the Ticknall Preservation & Historical Society held on the last Tuesday of
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Historical Society
The Gimsons of Stoneywell
After a couple of extremely well-attended outdoor meetings in September, when we visited the historic gardens of Melbourne Hall and November, when we
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Historical Society – Together Again
Ticknall Preservation and Historical Society is “UP AND RUNNING AGAIN”. Our first meeting was on Wednesday, 22 September 2021 when we visited the
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Ticknall Limeyards
The Thringstone Fault crosses the parish of Ticknall from east to west, separating the Coal Measures clays to the south from the upthrust
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Potted History
This old photo of the original Dexter’s Cottage was taken from the Limeyards immediately opposite the weighbridge office which is now part of
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Publications
The Ticknall Preservation and Historical Society, a voluntary non-profit-making group, have available a number of publications devoted to the economic and social history
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Ticknall Tramway – The Video
The Ticknall Tramway was a primitive form of horse tramway which was born in the Canal Age and survived long into the Railway
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200 years on, redundancy for Peter Marriott
Around three years ago the clock at St Georges Church Ticknall stopped chiming. After several attempts to rectify the problem it was decided
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Ticknall Tramway
The Ticknall Tramway was a primitive form of horse tramway which was born in the Canal Age and survived long into the Railway
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