photography - Burngreave Messenger

Kurtis Starkie of The Slow Readers Club by James Woollen

Snap happy! Local photographer finds focus

13th December 2021

Story by Sadia Khan with photos by James Woollen. James Woollen is a photographer and artist who volunteers at the Burngreave Messenger. His work features in articles regularly. James lives with the extra challenges of [Read more]

Winter Dark Peak competition winners

13th December 2021

We have chosen TWO winners of a Dark Peak jacket in our arts competition. First up, with her seasonal landscape painting is competition winner Somayeh Rostami who will receive her Dark Peak jacket soon. We [Read more]

The Messenger is BACK and this time, it’s ‘Personnel’

12th May 2021

After a prolonged break due to the pandemic and furlough, the Burngreave Messenger will be returning. Polly Perkins has recently been appointed as our new interim project manager, and we are making moves to re-launch [Read more]

We’re on Instagram @burngreavemessenger

6th August 2018

As well as using Twitter and Facebook, we’re looking for more ways to engage with the community and keep you – and us – in touch and up-to-date with what’s happening locally. So follow us [Read more]

Final Frontier

19th March 2018

Story and page design by Martin Currie | Photos by Alan Blay I first met Alan Blay at a party. Conversation wasn’t really flowing, so I resorted to asking “what do you do?” Apparently, he [Read more]

Hope Allotments robin

4th February 2018

A robin was a regular visitor to Hope Allotments, spotted and photographed by James Woollen.