Check out ‘The Mill’ page for the latest instalment of the history of our Mill Buildings! This month John Hill-Wilson focusses on the Mill during the time of the Black Death!
Click here to jump to The Mill pages – scroll down to see the history of the Mill Buildings – why not take the opportunity to brush up on your local history by reading the previous instalments???
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Cliffhanger 2011 is getting closer (2nd and 3rd July) and they have now published a list of the events and activities this year – and there is a HUGE amount!
The Friends of Millhouses Park will (of course) be running the (now famous) duck race (we wonder if Mr Clegg will once again take part)! There will even be a beach (with beach huts!)
Check this link for details of what to expect this year! http://cliff-hanger.co.uk/whatson/?year=2011.
We would STRONGLY suggest that those attending this year use public transport to get to the park as it’s going to be REALLY busy!!! First and Stagecoach provide bus services with Dore Railway Station only a few minutes walk away. Check our LOCATION page for more information, timetables and route maps.
See you there!!!
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Energy Share is a group run by British Gas, River Cottage and Friends of the Earth – we need as many people as possible to become supporters of the Energy Share group before June 30th – so get yourself to the website below and get registered!!!
Put the Mill back into Millhouses – click here: http://www.energyshare.com/millhouses-mill-buildings/widget.js
Click here for a PDF flyer that you can print out and give to all your friends: Energy Share Flyer
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Glass-House Project Support
Last autumn we applied to Glass-House Community Led Design for consideration under their Project Support programme, for help with our mill buildings project. Glass-House is a charity which helps groups like ours realise their aspirations for community buildings, and assist them with design ideas and a long term vision. After an initial meeting, they encouraged us to apply for support in the form of a three day course.
We were accepted and our first meeting took place on site last November. Here the Glass-House team listened to our plans and looked at the buildings before going away to draw up a tailor made course for us.
We then had their professional help for a further two sessions. The first, led by Leo Care of Sheffield University School of Architecture, took us through the steps we need to take in projects like ours. This session was followed by a study tour of three very different community based buildings in Sheffield. This enabled us to cherry pick ideas and inspiration for our own project as well as highlighting the things that were obviously not going to work in our case. All the sample buildings had something in common with our own building and site, either in terms of their historic importance, or their situation, i.e. sitting within a park boundary – the community aspect being all-encompassing.
Having given us some time to digest these ideas, Leo then held a follow up workshop in which, through a series of exercises, he helped us to brainstorm ideas for the future of our mill buildings.
We all agreed that we finished the Glass-House course on a high, with ideas buzzing around our heads. During the last few months those ideas have matured and many of them have been put into action, most notably in the design for our brochure and with a historic timeline poster currently in development.
It is also with thanks to Glass-House that we have had the confidence to forge our partnership with Sheffield City Council, opening up opportunities for further restoration on the site. We have started with the small building but hope that we shall eventually have the whole site back into use and forming a vibrant heritage focus at the north end of our park.
A full report on the Glass-House project can be found here: Glasshouse Report
Many thanks to both Leo Care and Hannah Gibbs, our Project Support officer at Glass-House – http://www.theglasshouse.org.uk/
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tripadvisor.co.uk has a VERY out of date set of reviews on their website for Millhouses Park and we really need people to get some good ones on there! Be honest, but it has to be better than the two reviews that are there from 2002! Reading these makes you realise how much difference the friends have made over the last few years!
Here’s the link – http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g186364-d213552-Reviews-Millhouses_Park-Sheffield_South_Yorkshire_England.html
Thank you all for this!!!
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Take a look at our new map – see what Millhouses Park has to offer!
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Check out our New Improved location page: https://friendsofmillhousespark.org/location/
You’ll find all you need to get to the park. New updates include:
– Bus timetables and route information
– Driving directions
– Accessibility at our entrances and attractions
Now there’s no reason not to visit arguably Sheffield’s favourite destination park!
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Check out The Mill pages for the new episode in the story of our Mill! This month’s offering tells us all about Hallamshire under the Feudal System – a reminder of how we used to live before Sheffield became a city…
Click HERE for the new episode – why not catch up by reading the previous episodes of this fantastic story?
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Don’t forget this fabulous opportunity to get up close and personal with the bird-life of Millhouses Park!
Meet up at 8am at the ARCHER ROAD entrance of the park on SATURDAY 30th APRIL. Wrap up warm though – a cool North-Easterly breeze is forecast!
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The latest copy of ‘The Miller’ is now out! Click the link below to view the magazine…
Don’t forget that Millhouses Park’s very own Cricket Club will be offering a Cricket Coaching Programme this summer – make sure you don’t miss out!
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