N.A.TO Headquarters, Brussels; Royal Navy; Admiral Sir Terence Lewin, First Sea Lord; N.U.M; N.C.B.; Lord Robens; Sir Harold Wilson; Rt. Hon Tony Benn M.P.;N.U.M. President Arthur Scargill; Miss Christina Foyle ; Danny la Rue; Isla St Clair; Joseph Hyman; Yorkshire Bank; Yorkshire Building  Society;Yorkshire Society;HepworthGroup;Tom Paxton;Tony Christie;Patrick Duffy; M.P., Vince Hill; The late L.S.Lowry; Rt Hon. John Major; Sheffield University; Barnsley M.B.C Wallace Arnold Ltd; Sir Yehudi Menuhin; Ronnie Hazlehurst; 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

Books:
Entry in “Who’s Who in Art”
Debretts’  Distinguished People of Today