Chantal Brotherton-Ratcliffe. Recognise the Artist ?  When we receive a letter or a Christmas card from someone we know, we often recognise the handwriting straight away, and know who it’s from without even opening the envelope. Recognising the hand of an artist can be like that – an instant certainty that the painting must be...

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Bat boxes and habitats are found widely in the Marches. Join Phil Playford as he talks about bats, their habits, habitats and life, and well as what we can do to look after them in town and countryside.. Tickets £5 available on the door.

Snodhill Castle sits within the Golden Valley in Herefordshire, close to the Welsh border. Twenty years ago the castle was virtually unknown and forgotten. Now ‘rescued’ by the Snodhill Castle Preservation Trust and Historic England, recent fieldwork has shown that it was one of the most unusual and largest castles in the Welsh Marches and is...

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For 300 years the Palmers’ Guild was at the heart of Ludlow life. It offered to ease its members’ passage through purgatory but, unlike other religious guilds, it was open and accessible to all. At its height it had over 5000 members ranging from Richard, Duke of York right through to rural villagers in mid-Wales...

Gavin Plumley: John Singer Sargent - The Private Radical  Whether drawing duchesses or portraying princes, John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) was high society’s leading portraitist. Flaunting a consummate technique, his luxurious canvases mirrored his subjects’ wealth. Yet beneath the dazzling veneer of works such as Madame X, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit and Lady Agnew of Lochnaw...

2025-02-21 19:30 -

Pitchford Hall is one of the most dramatic looking timber framed buildings in Shropshire and has the oldest tree house in the world in its grounds.  It isn’t just the building that has an interesting story though.  Sold in 1992 by the Colthurst family, it was bought back in 2016 by Rowena Colthurst and her...

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