*NOTE: Extended until the end of May! Friday 22nd April marks the opening of a much anticipated art exhibition at Bishops’ House. Thanks in particular to the hard work and determination of Bishops’ House volunteer, PhD researcher and artist Caroline Claisse, Bishops’ House will for two weeks host Curious House. This Arts Council England sponsored project runs in […]
At the end of what history now calls the Wars of the Roses, the victorious king Henry VII, on his marriage, adopted the Tudor Rose, combining the Red Rose of the House of Lancaster with the White Rose of the House of York. The Yorkists used the emblem of the white rose from early in […]
Friday April 22 2016 in the company of Pete Garratt, Ken Atkinson & Geoff Heppell three stalwarts of the local folk scene. Friday 22nd April at 7.30pm at Bishops’ House, Norton Lees Lane, Sheffield, S8 9BE Pete & Ken have been singing together for fifty years and run the highly successful and respected Beehive Folk […]
Saturday 21st May 2016 7.30 An evening of poetry and music to launch *If You Put Out Your Hand*: a collaboration between poet Helen Tookey and musician Sharron Kraus. The project takes inspiration from the natural world and our ways of responding to it. The poems’ settings are gardens, river valleys, hills, and at the […]
Unknown to most visitors, there is a cellar, which lies under the main entrance to Bishops’ House. On the north and west walls of the cellar are two stone windows, now blocked up and below ground level. The window to the north even has a few small remaining fragments of glass in the frame. […]
There is a well in the cellar of Bishops House. It’s now blocked up and we can use a pump if the water level gets too high. But why was it put there in the first place? There may be two answers. Firstly, there are many natural springs in the area and this may […]
Wednesday June 22nd 2016 Sheffield was quick off the mark to provide elementary education after the 1870 Education Act, and the School Board was responsible for many fine school buildings. The talk looks at the way the Board was set up in Sheffield and at the building programme which has left us with one of […]
Monday May 23rd 2016 The story of the lords of the manor from the Norman Conquest to the 20th century; their homes, castles, parks and the larger than life stories of their lives and times. Includes the stories of the amazing Bess of Harwick, the Earl of Shrewsbury and their royal prisoner, Mary Queen of […]
Wednesday May 4th 21016 What were they really like? An examination of the local workhouse experience.
Wednesday April 20th 2016 This talk explains why this most unusual former turnpike road came to be planned and built and why, though it was a feat of highway engineering, it was a commercial failure. Its history post-turnpike is covered up to the present day and its relevance to Sheffield’s communications is examined. Copies of […]
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