ashby’s FABulous Ashby’s FABulous 2016 ‘This one’s for you Lorna’...
A great success for Ashby and for Lorna too!
THE magic of live windows returned to Ashby for the third year running on Saturday, 1st October, with Ashby’s FABulous 2016 ‘this one’s for you Lorna’.
This was a town wide event to celebrate what Ashby has to offer and the community work of Lorna Titley who was so passionate about Ashby Town. The Ashby’s FABulous event was first held in the town in 2014 and was organised by Lorna Titley. Lorna was tragically killed in a road traffic accident in January this year.
The event was opened by the Mayor of Ashby and despite the weather in the afternoon, Ashby town centre was full and very lively!
This year’s event was bigger than ever with 43 live windows, 15 magic themes and 86 models involved. So many different businesses in Ashby were involved including butchers, fashion retailers, bridal shops, hairdressers, beauty salons, pet shops and parlours, florists, opticians, charity shops, cafes and food retailers, DIY shops, local Yoga
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classes, travel agents, home interiors, gift shops, furniture outlets, fabrics and sewing, a bed shop, card shops, a chemist, a toyshop and a sweetshop. A number of models were provided by Ashby school and the rest were enthusiastic volunteers including Lorna’s daughter and grandson, Leonie and Arthur (pictured top) who were the live models in Shellbrook Toys window.
“Lorna was very passionate about the Ashby Film Nights that take place at The Lyric Rooms, so we thought we would run a movie theme fancy dress to tie in with this - enabling businesses unable to have a live window to also be involved and add a little more magic to the day.” said Julie Brownlow of Ashby Image & Print. Movie characters seen on the day included James Bond, Pirates of the Caribbean, the Wizard of Oz, Grease, ‘Allo ‘Allo, Minions, Alice in Wonderland and A Hundred and One Dalmatians. Once again, Ashby’s hair and beauty salons
gave their time and expertise, free of charge, to promote models
styling. These included; Classic Cuts of Ashby, Keith Hall, The Temple Hair Spa, Trendset and Vanilla Funk, The Beauty Rooms, Rose Beauty Services and Uruku Beauty salon.
Fashion retailers and charity shops provided, outfits, florists supplied bouquets and vintage shops tea sets and accessorises for the models who posed from 10:30am to 12noon and 1:30pm till 3pm. “Lorna was so passionate about Ashby’s FABulous and its potential for promoting what Ashby has to offer, we felt that we needed to make sure Ashby’s FABulous happened this year. The whole town was alive with balloons, movie magic and live models.” said Clare Birch, one of the Ashby FABulous team.
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