POSTPONED Wednesday 25th March 2015 7.30 Due to unavoidable circumstances we are sorry that we have had to postpone this talk. Instead, Ron Clayton will be speaking on this date about Sheffield’s Lost Heritage, with particular focus on Sheffield’s lost halls of the 16th and 17th centuries. Ken Dash has spent four years painstakingly surveying […]
Tuesday February 3rd 2015 7.30 Kaktus Leach talk on “Two thousand years of unofficial coinage” Entry free, but please arrive early to be sure of a place.
Thursday March 19th 2015 7.30 ‘Days of Sun and Rain: the Sheffield Clarion Ramblers during the 1920s and 1930s’. Using the journals and photographs of a Sheffield walker, George Willis Marshall, local history writer Ann Beedham provides an insight into the world of rambling in Derbyshire, with its shades of social activism, during the 1920s and 1930s. The Clarion Rambling Club campaigned for the rights of […]
Friday 20th February 2015 7.30pm A talk by Robin Fielder. Better known as the inventor of Stainless Steel, Harry Brearley wrote an autobiography which provides some of the best descriptions we have of what life was like in Victorian times for the workers of Sheffield. Entry free, but please arrive early to be sure of […]
If you stand at the top of the ramp leading into the Park, on Norton Lees Lane and look at Bishops House you will see that the western part of the building leans to the right [the east]. When first built around 1500, Bishops House was a three bay timber framed building, constructed from vertical […]
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The Blythe family are famous for their association with Bishops’ House but I’d like to write about some of the other people who lived in the house over the last five hundred years. On the inside of the door at the bottom of the east staircase, if you look closely, you can see the initials […]
Friday 5th December 2014 @ 7.30 Music from Bishops’ House presents another evening of thoughtful, introspective music, featuring: Lost GardenLost Garden are a dark ambient (or pick your own genre!) duo performing quasi-improvised instrumental pieces. They are Andy Peake on keyboards/FX (ex Comsat Angels with whom he released 13 albums, countless singles and toured the […]
In the ceiling of the parlour on the ground floor, the plaster moulding in one corner does not follow the line of the wall but encloses a square part of the ceiling about 92 cm [36 in.] across. We think that this square was once part of an access to the first floor from the […]
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