20th anniversary

Story and Photo by Kate Sheldrick Pete and Jim are getting ready for their regular Sunday pint, and want to revisit the pubs they went to twenty years ago… Pete: 20 years ago! doesn’t seem [Read more]

Story by Evan Blythe | Photos by Abdulrahman Oulmi and Evan Blythe For our twentieth anniversary, we set out to the Toll Gate house to interview Pitsmoor resident, and familiar Burngreave Messenger face, Winnie Bentley. [Read more]

Story by Neil Schofield Photos by Laura Farah, Sherin T Rajan, Jon Dallow, Catherine Brown, John Scholey and Graham Jones In 1999 most of Parkwood Springs could be described as ‘unloved’. A few people knew [Read more]

Brought to you by quizmaster Graham Jones Of course, a lot of us weren’t around twenty years ago and so the alternative to doing the quiz is to look for hidden creatures in the words [Read more]

All the articles from the printed copy of issue 143, the June 2019 edition of the Burngreave Messenger, are now online. You can see all the issues collected in an index at Issue 143 June [Read more]

20th anniversary issue The first issue of the Messenger was published in July 1999, and since then we have distributed over one and a quarter million copies of the paper to households in Burngreave. For [Read more]