Housing & Buildings

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]

Story by Saleema Imam | Photos by Carl Rose. Messenger volunteers visited our newest purpose-built mosque at Petre Street, joining the largest congregation of the week for Friday prayers. The project received its first building [Read more]

Come and meet the people doing stuff in Abbeyfield House and Park on Sunday 27th June 1pm-4:30pm. Try out bowling for newcomers with experts on the beautiful 100 year old Green. Enjoy a cuppa and [Read more]

A couple of months ago, we were walking past Abbeyfield House. Around the back are a number of derelict buildings. Doors and windows were sealed by metal and wooden shutters, all evenly spaced out like [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]

Story by Kevin Stapleton | Photos by Mohammed Rawais Sheffield City Council Private Housing Standards held its annual landlord awards at Sheffield’s Mecure St Pauls Hotel on Thursday September 12th. Now in its third year [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]

Burngreave Library celebrated it’s fourth year as a volunteer led service on Saturday 5th October with a get together and meal. On the day Burngreave Library Tweeted to say: “Today marks four years since Burngreave [Read more]

Story by Carrie Hedderwick | Photos courtesey of Picture Sheffield at www.picturesheffield.com In 1919 the Addison Act enabled local authorities to develop new housing for working people. The aim was to produce high quality, well [Read more]

Story by Wajid Akhter | Photo by Richard Belbin Each spring The ESTAS Estate & Letting Agent Awards take place in London with over a thousand guests attending each year. The trophies are presented by [Read more]

Story by John Malkin | Photo by Richard Belbin New age travellers living near to the former Sheffield ski village have been told they have 28 days to leave the site after losing their legal [Read more]

Story by Richard Belbin The judge hearing evidence at Sheffield Count Court, Judge Graham Robinson, has reportedly made his decision as to whether the city council can gain possession of the land near the former [Read more]

Story by Richard Belbin Spital Hill Works, latterly known as Lion Works or Lyon Works, has been included on a list of sites ‘at risk’ of being lost forever unless they can be brought back [Read more]

Story and  photos by Graham Jones On 14th December members of the Burngreave Local History group made a visit to the Northern General Hospital to see the amazing collection which has been put together by [Read more]