SHEFFIELD HERITAGE OPEN DAYS 7 - 10th September 2017 1 Welcome to Sheffield’s Heritage Open Days September 7 – 10th 2017 All across England the largest heritage festival is taking place. In thousands of places across the country people can join 40,000 volunteers in celebrating local places and stories and explore the multitude of familiar and hidden places on your doorstep, completely free of charge. In Sheffield our volunteers are hosting116 events and we thank them all. Join them and share their pride, knowledge and enthusiasm. Discover something new, something unusual, or something astonishing, but share our pride in our city. Sheffield Civic Trust is proud to be the local organizer of this important annual event. It will be launched by the Lord Mayor, Anne Murphy, at Bank Street Arts. Thank you to Conservation Architect, Studio Gedye, for financial support which has allowed us to produce many more copies of this wonderful booklet. NB. THIS BOOKLET CONTAINS LIMITED DETAILS ONLY ALWAYS CHECK FOR FULL DETAILS ONLINE: www.heritageopendays.org.uk/visiting for complete information about booking, access, refreshments etc & any recent alterations to dates or times of events @sheffield_hods @sheffieldheritageopendays Sheffield Civic Trust relies on our volunteer team who organize events, represent us nationally, write articles and work to deliver Heritage Open Days and the Sheffield Design Awards. If you are interested in our city and its buildings and places, and would like to get actively involved then email us at: [email protected] and find out how you might take part. Many thanks to Kate Cooper, Rhona Watts and Jean Baxter for their generous help in the preparation of this booklet Disclaimer: While care has been taken with this leaflet, Sheffield Civic Trust cannot accept responsibility for errors and omissions 2 3 Affordable Eco-home Prototype All Saints Church, Ecclesall, Open Day by Reach S11 7PP S2 3EE Grade ll listed Georgian church welcomes visitors to visit Opportunity to consider evolution of Sheffield church & graveyard to learn about beauty of building and housing provision. Explore social enterprise, carbon- local history connections. Guided tour in afternoon. neutral homes made from shipping containers, using Sat 1030-1700 recycled materials. Sat Tour 1400-1530 Thurs 1600-1800, Fri 1100-1500, Sat & Sun 1200-1500 Booking not required (but max 25 per tour) Booking not required (max 10 per tour) www.allsaintsecclesall.org.uk www.reachhomes.org Antiques Quarter Amble Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet: S7 1FS ‘The Families 1740-1933’ Guided walk, Abbeyale Rd & Broadfield, discussing S7 2QW historical features. Visits to 2 antique centres (some In the company of Totley Local History Group restricted access), the Broadfield & site of Tyzacks discover more about the lives of the families of the Engineering Works. Industrial Hamlet for nearly 200 years from 1740 Fri Walk 1300-1600 Sun 1100-1600 Booking required (max 15 per tour) Booking not required sheafvalleyheritage.co.uk/ www.simt.co.uk/abbeydale-industrial-hamlet https://www.eventbrite.com/e/antiques-quarter-amble- tickets-32853605017 Abbeydale Picture House: Heritage Tour Day Aston Reading Room S7 1FS S26 2AN Picture house opened in 1920: Tour by Mike Display of local history documents,maps & photos, Higginbottom explaining both history and restoration local albums chronicle history of community & lives and viewing areas not normally accessible. Note of servicemen in 2 World Wars, research of graves in access restrictions. churchyard & story of Aston Hall links to Capability Sun 1100-1615 Brown Sun Tours between 1100 & 1530 Fri 1800-2000, Sat 1000-1600 Booking required (max 25 per tour) Booking not required [email protected] www.astonhistorygroup.co.uk www.theabbeydalepicturehouse.com http://www.theabbeydalepicturehouse. Attercliffe, A Walk around com/2017/08/01/heritage-open-days/ S9 3SP Heritage walk, starts at tram stop. Hear about history of Aizlewood’s Mill Tour, Nursery St Attercliffe. Fine, once bustling, shopping centre, religious S3 8GG buildings & recently revealed Zion graveyard Visit amazing converted Victorian flour mill now used Thurs 1000-1200 for start-up companies. See scary paternoster and Booking required (max 25 per tour) original features of mill. Mike Higginbottom 0114 242 0951 Fri 1000-1500 [email protected] Fri Tours 10.00 – 15.00 (hourly) www.mikehigginbottominterestingtimes.co.uk Booking required (max 6 per tour) Catherine Beatty 0114 282 3123 [email protected] Beauchief Abbey http://www.aizlewoodsmill.com/ S8 0EL Abbey dedicated to Thomas a Becket, seat of worship from 1170 to present. Stunning parkland. Soak up history All Saints Church, Aston, Open Day in tranquil chapel, box pews, remains of monastic cloisters. S26 2EE Fri 1100-1600,Sat 1100-1600,Sun 1300-1600 Featured in Domesday Book. Display of church Booking not required vestments and silver. Climb spiral staircase for http://www.beauchiefabbey.org.uk/ stunning views of 3 counties from tower. Sun 1430-1630 Booking not required (but max 6 per tour) 3 Remember when planning your day, please CHECK ONLINE for details. See page 2 of this booklet. Bishops’ House Burngreave Heritage Walk S8 9JE S4 7AT Outstanding timber-framed building, once home of This walk celebrates the heritage of Burngreave & scythemaking family. Museum Sheffield Collection Pitsmoor, sites old and new, & links with railways and furnishings. Tours. Sat--Children’s activities. Sun- lower Don Valley steel industry. Prospect of tour round dendrochronologist talk about recent discoveries Abbeyfield House. Sat & Sun 1000-1600 Sat 1300-1500 Sat & Sun Tours 1130 & 1430 Sun Talk, 1300 Booking not required (but max 50 per tour) Booking not required (max 16 per tour) www.sheffielddrifter.org.uk www.bishopshouse.org.uk Butcher Works, All Good Stuff ‘Root Bloc Projects ‘An Open Ground’ and Branch Exhibition’ S1 4RB S1 2NS Events to mark changing history of area. Series of Art & Craft Exhibition on theme of Root and Branch. local tours, led by local heritage partners, to hear Studio housed in restored cutlery factory complex, historic stories of neighbourhood. Fete in gallery next door to Butcher Works Gallery (see also Freeman courtyard, food & entertainment. Photo exhibition & College entry) new film about area’s heritage Sat 1030-1700 Sat 1200-2000 Booking not required Booking not required www.agstuff.co.uk www.blocprojects.co.uk/ Cemetery Road Baptist Church Bloc Projects: Sidney St Past, S11 8HA Present & Potential Imposing Romanesque style Grade ll listed Chapel, built S1 4RB 1859. Discover history of this church from Exhibition 45min heritage walks led by Ron Clayton recalling sourced from church archives and find out about current back street community of Sidney St, between multi-ethnic congregation Moorhead & Little Sheffield-now evolving area of Sat 1000-1600 cutlery,coffee and corner pubs Sat 1300,1500,1700 Booking not required www.crbchurch.org.uk Booking not required max 25 per tour) 075157 27181 https://sheffieldhistorytours.com/ Christadelphian Hall Open Day S11 8FP Botanical Gardens Celebration of 50 years since building constructed. All S10 2LN welcome to visit and tour the building. Presentation Day of activity in Marnock’s lovely Botanical Gardens, about our history, music, story-telling, puppet show and opened 1836, including talk by expert, guided history conversation tour, family trail, sale of plants etc Sat 1000-1500 Sun 1100-1500 Booking not required Sun Tour 1130, Talk 1400, family trail 1100-1400 www.sheffieldchristadelphians.org.uk/ Booking not required www.fobssheffield.co.uk Collegiate Campus, Hallam twitter.com/FOBSheffield University, ‘Walking History’ S10 2BP Broomhill Community Library ‘60 Learn about 200 year history of this historic site and Years a Library’ many changing uses, from boys’ school, through wartime S10 5BR hospital, to present day Come and celebrate our diamond jubilee. Come and Thurs 1000, 1100, 1300, 1400,1500 see the archeaological excavation of famous designer Booking required (max 15 per tour) Cane’s garden, future plans, children’s arts & crafts, www.shu.ac.uk garden tours and Sunday tea party https://blogs.shu.ac.uk/futurespaces/events/a-walking- Fri 1530-1730, Sat 1100-1500, Sun Tea Party 1500-1800 history-of-collegiate-campus-2/ Booking not required http://www.broomhill-library.org.uk/ https://twitter.com/BroomhilLibrary 4 5 Cupola Gallery:Founding & History Eckington Church Heritage Day S6 1TD S21 4DY Enjoy guided tour of building and hear talk about its 12C Grade l listed, lovely Church. Visit the belltower, try founding and tasty gossip about 25 years in business! your hand. See work of monumental masons & stained glass, Children welcome. Free tea & cake! treasure hunt for children, heritage walks & Songs of Praise Thurs, Fri & Sat 1000-1800 (4.00pm) Fri & Sat Tour & Talk 1400 Sun 0900-1700 Booking preferred (but max 5 per tour) Booking not required Karen Sherwood 0114 285 2665 www.eckingtonchurch.org.uk/ [email protected] http://www.cupolagallery.com/ Electric Works S1 2BJ Cutlers’ Hall, Sheffield Chance to see Sheffield’s modern heritage- digital, creative & S1 1HG tech hub building- admire impressive interior design and ride Tour the imposing rooms of this Grade 2* listed the 3-storey internal helter-skelter! building and admire pictures, and display of Sheffield Sun 1000-1500 cutlery and outstanding hallmarked silver. Series of Booking not required (max 100 per tour) free guided tours. www.electric-works.net