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www.ashtonvillage.co.uk
Last Update
23 March 2012
Ashton books for sale
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Over the last 54 years, this book has become a 'classic' for those wishing to study the history of Ashton village from its very earliest days to 1953. It is now reprinted.Click below
© 2007
for more information and how to buy a copy.
>>>Scrapbook -
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Village Snapshot
A walk through
Ashton’s past
Village Snapshot is a collection of photographs, documents, memories, facts, figures and video stills that have been collected over the years by Andrew Fowler and David Farrand.
Written in an easy to read style based on our popular historical walk and talk tours of our village.
In addition we have added reminiscences of earlier days in Ashton
© 2010
for more information and how to buy a copy.
>>>Village Snapshot-
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Heritage Lottery Funded Project:
Ashton's Heritage Lottery Funded projects
Ashton ‘Roots’ Book :
( Project to run from 2009 to 2010 )
As the second part of Ashton’s commitment to the Heritage Lottery Funded Project, it was agreed to create and publish an up to date history book on Ashton. The last such book was published by the Ashton Women’s Institute in 1953.
This project was started directly after the Roots weekend, in July 2009. We hope to complete the work by the end of 2010.
We are looking for help from all those in the village and those who have family ‘Roots’ with Ashton.
We are looking for those who have ANY of the skills etc noted below :
- An interest in the history of our village
- Have any Photographs, Documents, memories, family history research of Ashton families etc.
- Those who would held us type in the notes and documents we already have to hand.
Those with word-
processors would be the most useful to us. - Those with the following skills:
- Word processing
- Artistic, drawing, painting etc.
- Graphics design
- Publishing
- Book production
- Etc etc –
some skills we may not have thought of yet !
If you feel you can help us in any way,
please contact either:
Andrew Fowler on 01604 862904
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Dave Farrand on 01604 863225
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