Friends Annual General Meeting

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.

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by | June 19, 2012 · 9:04 pm

Himalayan Balsam Bashing!

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 Coaching

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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New Episode of the Mill Story

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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Milly Jam 2012 Results

Scooter

1st Luke Frost

2nd Oliver Meads

3rd Oliver Steez Fletcher

Under 12 Skateboard

1st – Matthew Bikoumou

2nd – Harrison Hague

3rd – Matt Gray

Under 12 BMX

1st – Elliot Beeden

2nd – Edward Sweeney

3rd – George Spivey

High hop – flat

Tom Kilcoyne

High Ollie – Flat

Will Lester

High Hop – Bank

Sam Ward

High Ollie – Bank

Will Lester

12-18 Skate

1st – Will Lester

2nd – Jack Wainwright

3rd – Jay Bex

Best trick – Will Lester’s Ollie over the back rail

12-18 BMX

1st – Jamie Shipston

2nd – Jack Wordsworth

3rd – Dan Bellamy

Over 18 Skate

1st – Shaun Currie

2nd – Rowan Murray

3rd – Steve Watson

Over 18 BMX

1st – Ross Jarman

2nd – Jordan Waters

3rd – Lloyd Jones

Best Trick – Oggie’s 3rd way out ‘the park

Credits & Thanks

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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Playground Regeneration

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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Milly Jam 2012!

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…

(Whilst we do our best to ensure that external links are suitable for you to visit we remind you that we have no control over the content of other websites)

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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Community Assembly Adopted Milly Jam

Tammy Barrass and Matthew Rush from SW Community Assembly adopted Milly Jam 2012 on probably the busiest day we have seen at Millhouses Park. A huge Success.

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Millhouses Park Splash Re-Opens!

The work on Millhouses Park Splash! Waterplay is now complete and the facility is now open for play!!!

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