Collections

N.A.TO Headquarters, Brussels
Royal Navy
Admiral Sir Terence Lewin, First Sea Lord
N.U.M
N.C.B
Lord Robens
The late Sir Harold Wilson
Rt. Hon Tony Benn M.P.
N.U.M. President Arthur Scargill
Miss Christina Foyle
The late Danny la Rue
Isla St Clair
Joseph Hyman
Yorkshire Bank
Yorkshire Building Society
Yorkshire Society
Hepworth Group
Tom Paxton
Tony Christie
Sir Patrick Duffy M.P.
Vince Hill
The late L.S.Lowry
Rt Hon. John Major
Sheffield University
Barnsley M.B.C
Wallace Arnold Ltd
The late Sir Yehudi Menuhin
The late Ronnie Hazlehurst
The late Kathy Staff
2nd Battalion Parachute Regiment
Bryan Forbes
Norman Siddall
N.C.B. Chairman
Barbara Taylor Bradford
Graham Poulter P.L.C.
Yorkshire Post Newspapers
Global Group PLC
British Gas P.L.C
Sir Bernard Ingham
Former Mayor of New York, Rudolph Guiliani
Former President of U.S.A. Bill Clinton.

Accolades

1967
Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts 
Founder Member of the Yorkshire  Watercolour Society; elected Chairman

1996
Arts and Entertainment Award - Yorkshire Awards
Yorkshire Society-  Vice Chairman, Vice President

2004
B.T selected one of Ashley’s paintings to be depicted on the front cover of the telephone directory

2005
Freedom of the City of London

2006
Life Time Achievement Award Yorkshire Awards

2007
Life Time Achievement Award- Huddersfield Examiner

2004
Present day Ambassador Northernart

2008
February Yorkshire Icon Award and Hall of Fame

2009
Yorkshire man of the year Dalesman Rural Award
 
Books:
Entry in “Who’s Who in Art”
Debretts’  Distinguished People of Today