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When the Parker Shore Bank ceased trading in 1843 it caused something of a local scandal. Here was Sheffield’s oldest bank which had been operating, apparently successfully, for thirty years. What had happened? The reasons, when looked at, were several. There had been an economic depression for many years. In 1825, 93 provincial private banks […]
Thursday October 16th 7.30pm Friends of Bishops’ House are proud to introduce a series of free talks, extending into the New Year, covering a range of local history based topics. Chairman of the Friends, John Brown, will set the ball rolling with “The History of Norton Lees’. A great speaker, not to be missed! Free […]
Saturday 18th October 7.30pm The Gamebirds & Black Velvet Clarinet Quartet The Gamebirds are a 4-part vocal harmony group who blend folk and choral styles. Black Velvet Clarinet Quartet play music and arrangements from the Renaissance to the present day. £7 admission on the door
Tuesday 11th November 7.30 Back by popular demand, Toffee Music is Mike Lydiat and Dave Markham. TOFFEE is an acronym for “Two Old Fellas For Evening Entertainment”! Dave has been ‘entertaining the troops’ for more than 40 years and Mike first ‘trod the boards’ in 1962. Between them they have a century of playing […]
When a timber framed building was constructed, the trees would have been felled and sawn for timbers, which would have been brought to the site and then jointed and reinforced by wooden pegs. But with hundreds of pieces of wood, how to be sure that the right timbers were put together? One way was to […]
Friday January 23rd 2015 7.30 David will be giving a talk on ‘Packhorse Routes in the Peak District’. Entry free, but please arrive early to be sure of a place.
Thursday November 27th 7.30 Colin Merrony will be giving a talk entitled ‘Chasing shadows: seven years of investigating the medieval hospital at Castleton’. The Castleton Hospital Project began in 2008 as a joint project between the University of Sheffield and the Castleton Historical Society. The main objective of the project is to understand the site […]
Tuesday October 28th 7.30 Lloyd Powell will be giving a talk about Sheffield Castle. Lloyd is a well-known local historian who ha an unparalleled knowledge of Sheffield Castle and is renowned for his fascinating talks. He is a member of the Friends Of Sheffield Castle.
All the main upright timbers used when the house was built rest on pads of stone to level them up and to keep the wood off the ground and dampness. On the north side of the house, in the middle of the wall, you can see a vertical row of stones where one of these […]