The History of Ashby Through Cartoons

LOUDOUN GALLERY

Ashby museum invites you to come and see its pictorial timeline of A2 children’s posters, recording colourful local scenes from the Iron Age through to the present day.   Society is diverse; it has been in the past as much as in the present day. Where possible these cartoons aim to reflect that diversity by their incidental inclusion of children and adults with learning difficulties. There are even a few characters using British Sign Language.

New in this gallery

All our cartoon pictures are accompanied by a sound recording. The recordings are designed to sound as if one of the children in the picture is speaking to the visitor. Personal audio devices are available to enable visitors to listen to these recordings. There is a series of other recordings which can be heard using these devices in the main Zouche and Hastings Gallery.

One of the series of pictures in the Ashby Museum exhibition features the Ashby Jubilee event in 1887. The small excerpt below shows children finger spelling.

Di Lorriman, the artist, says ”I agree that a line of Victorian children would most likely  not have finger spelled ‘jubilee’ in 1887, but how inspiring for the next young signing museum visitor when they recognise a skill they use in a character from the past  and how thought provoking for all museum visitors.”

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