Due to popular demand, The Pudding Ladies will be opening the Park Cafe until 6pm, 7 days a week! Last food orders will be at 5:30pm. The extended hours start this Sunday the 1st July! Go to http://millhousesparkcafe.co.uk/ to find out more.
Millhouses Park Cafe
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Come along to Beauchief Gardens on Sunday 1st July! There’s no Balsam Bash in the park on Sunday because last year’s event was so successful!
So don your gardening clothes, pick up your trowel and fork and get down to Beauchief gardens 10:00 – 12:00!
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The 2012 AGM will take place in the Park Cafe at 7:30pm until 9:00pm with refreshments courtesy of the Pudding Ladies.
We will be presenting:
Car Parking Charges
MillyJam 2012
Playground Climbing Frame
Bees in the Park
Regeneration
Natural Play
Litter; Balsam; Sensory Gardens and Beauchief Gardens
This Website
The Mill Buildings
The Community Assembly
Thanks go to Williams of Woodseats for the loan of the LCD panel for presentations at the AGM and the the Pudding Ladies for the use of the Cafe and Refreshments.
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Historic Footage of Millhouses Lido with the Spartan Swimmers!
Check out this link to see the old Lido (or Millhouses Pool) way back in 1933/4. That looks REALLY cold! The swimmers are the Sheffield Spartan Swimmers and the link is thanks to the Yorkshire Film Archive via David Cooper.
Come along on the 1st July from 1000-1200 to help the Sheffield Ranger Service eradicate the Himalayan Balsam growing along our river banks!
Himalayan Balsam is an introduced plant which has escaped from gardens and is rapidly colonising river banks and other areas of damp ground. It is an annual plant which grows to about 2m with purplish-pink slipper shaped flowers in June to August. When seed pods are mature, they explode when touched, scattering the seed. It forms dense stands which suppresses the growth of grasses and native British plants leaving the banks bare of vegetation in Autumn and winter liable to erosion. Because Himalayan Balsam re-grows annually from seed, any form of control carried out after the seed pods have formed will have no effect.
Small infestations can be controlled by hand by pulling as the plant is shallow rooted. The seedbank lasts 18 months, so two years control should eradicate the plant. This is our 2nd Year!
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Millhouses Works Cricket Club Summer Coaching Programme for 7-13 year olds is now well underway with sessions on WEDNESDAY EVENINGS at Millhouses Park Cricket Ground from 6:15pm until 7:45pm.
The cost is just £2 per child, per session.
MWCC is an ECB Focus Club and Clubmark-accredited. These sessions are run by Qualified Coaches and vetted volunteers.
Is your child the next Kevin Pieterson or Jimmy Anderson? Bring them along and find out!
For further details follow us on Twitter (@millhouseswks), join our Facebook group (www.facebook.com/millhousesworkscc) or visit our website (www.millhousesworks.play-cricket.com). Alternatively, please call Iain Mallett on 07976 597756 or at iain@imallett.orangehome.co.uk
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The latest chapter of the Mill Story by John Hill-Wilson is now online for you to read – CLICK HERE or visit the ‘MILL’ page.
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1st Luke Frost
2nd Oliver Meads
3rd Oliver Steez Fletcher
1st – Matthew Bikoumou
2nd – Harrison Hague
3rd – Matt Gray
1st – Elliot Beeden
2nd – Edward Sweeney
3rd – George Spivey
Tom Kilcoyne
Will Lester
Sam Ward
Will Lester
1st – Will Lester
2nd – Jack Wainwright
3rd – Jay Bex
Best trick – Will Lester’s Ollie over the back rail
1st – Jamie Shipston
2nd – Jack Wordsworth
3rd – Dan Bellamy
1st – Shaun Currie
2nd – Rowan Murray
3rd – Steve Watson
1st – Ross Jarman
2nd – Jordan Waters
3rd – Lloyd Jones
Best Trick – Oggie’s 3rd way out ‘the park
All the competitors & spectators
Bike Tree, Simple Skate Store, The House Skatepark, Slide Boardstore, Slugger Skate Shop, J E James & Edinburgh Bikes, Custom Built and SW Community Assembly for prizes
James Folkes – PA/Sound System, High Jump & Trophy engineer
Eds Astill – PA & Recycle Bike Doctor
Toby Jenkinson – Registration & fixer
Joe Ward – 2012 T-shirt design, Scooter & High hop/ollie trophies
Sam Ward – BMX trophies, dedication & Marley’s Mellow Mood
House Rob for support, loan of the generator & judging with Joe 90
Tom Blyth for making the trip over to judge BMX
Joel Culf ON THE MIC! & BMX judging
Will ‘Oh my God’ Lester on the Mic & skate judging
Jason Bamford, Tom Peters, Tom Kilcoyne, Steve Watson & Jamie Shipston – input & support
Ross Karime on the Mic
Kate Stow & Friends of Millhouses Park – funding and support
June Burke at Sheffield City Council
Matthew Rush & Tammy Barrass at Sheffield Community Assembly
Everyone else who pitched in to make it an amazing day
Bring on Milly Jam 2013!
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From a derelict site of many years the awarding of a Community Spaces grant has transformed the area into the busiest place in the park on probably the busiest day I have ever known it.
The Gym, the Cycle Park and Oaks plus a sustainability grant from Community Spaces for Milly Jam has seen a fantastic day, adopted by the SW Community Assembly and supported by our PCSO. Totally transformed with a cross section of ages and backgrounds … One of the best projects we have achieved to date. About 1000 people in one area at one time is quite an achievement within 6 months of the project finishing.
Congratulations to all those involved Kate, Geoff & Cath, Toby and Carolyn, Tammy & Matthew, Nicola ……. Brilliant, just brilliant and thanks on behalf of everyone in the community who has benefitted from your labour.
Please pass on my admiration to the guy on the microphone, how he kept going so long, I will never know.
John Brighton, Friends of Millhouses Park Secretary
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A HUGE success this year – and what amazing weather! Here’s some photos from the event…
About 1000 attendees at Milly Jam encouraged the riders from 11 am though until 5 pm – check this video by Jack James Higgins…
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Another huge success and our thanks go to Geoff Hibbard and his team who organise the event … perhaps in time for next year his voice will be back!
Results will be posted here later in the week – watch this space!
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