History & Heritage

Friends of Abbeyfield Park invite you to an open day at Abbeyfield House on Saturday 18th September, 1 to 4pm with tours of the house, food tasting and food making workshops. The house opens its [Read more]

To add to our community listings calendar, send your event info (30 words or less) to listings@burngreavemessenger.org Anything we’ve missed can go on our online calendar: Saturday 5th June: Annual Well Dressing and Big Lunch [Read more]

Out and about in Burngreave Local performance outerwear designers Dark Peak have donated two of their lightweight NESSH down jackets for an Out and About in Burngreave competition. For a chance to win one, send [Read more]

In a heated debate, pupils from Pye Bank Primary School decide if they think Emmeline Pankhurst was a hero or a criminal. Pye Bank pupil Hamish Fagan says: Emmeline Pankhurst was an activist who played [Read more]

Story by Graham Jones. We’ll start at the foot of Spital Hill and walk to Ellesmere Green.As we stand, our back to Wicker Arches at the bottom of Spital Hill, looking up the hill, there’s [Read more]

Ignite Imaginations have offered their withdrawal from the Remember Windrush project following comments questioning why an organisation with a mostly white staffing body and board were given funding. In our latest issue we ran an [Read more]

Story by Neill Schofield | Photos by Friends of Parkwood Springs and Bernadette O’Callaghan The pandemic has had a big effect on both Parkwood Springs and the Friends Group. On the positive side, it has [Read more]

Story and photo by Drew Dallen Both Burngreave Cemetery chapels have had their roofs repaired this month. This is another step on the road to getting these chapels functioning for community use. Now the roofs [Read more]

Brought to you by quizmaster Graham Jones Around this time of year many Burngreave families are celebrating various festivals. Here’s a quiz to find out what you know about these wintry festivals. 1. Approximately how [Read more]

Story and photos by Zia Khan Saturday 23rd November was a wonderful day for Muslims to spread the Universal Message of Peace and Love by distributing roses and sweets and biscuits in Sheffield City Centre. [Read more]

Story by Neill Schofield, Joint Chair, the Friends of Parkwood Springs Progress towards the re-opening of the Ski Village on Parkwood Springs passed another milestone a few weeks ago, when the council signed an Agreement [Read more]

Story by Graham Jones | Photo by Tim Neal This summer has seen a number of organised walks through Burngreave with the majority of walkers coming from other parts of the city and places beyond. [Read more]

It’s our 20th anniversary issue! All the articles from the printed copy of issue 144, the August 2019 edition of the Burngreave Messenger, are now online. You can see all the issues collected in an [Read more]

Story by Richard Belbin Welcome to the twentieth anniversary edition of the Messenger. As well as all the usual news and features, in this issue we are also featuring some of the people and groups [Read more]