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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]

WIN another Dark Peak jacket

20th September 2021

For your chance to win one of these lovely coats, just send in your poems, artwork, photographs or articles on the theme of nature, outdoor spaces and local green activities to mail@burngreavemessenger.org The first person [Read more]

Dark Peak winner: Grimesthorpe Allotments poem

20th September 2021

A poem by Andrew Hodgson, winning entry in last issue’s Dark Peak jacket arts competition. On our allotment a small community meets with chances to grow Off our allotment fruit or veg the whole year [Read more]

Burngreave Academy dragon invasion

16th December 2019

Story and photos by Tim Neal On Tuesday 19th November, students at Astrea Academy came face-to-face with a lifesize, fire-breathing, paper dragon made from 1,200 A4 pieces of paper. Thirteen metres long, with a wingspan [Read more]

A grave unseen no more

29th April 2019

Story by Christine Steers | Photo by Nico Hall Private David Barry of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, died of septic poisoning in Sheffield on 21 September 1916. Born in Ireland, he was living in Canada [Read more]

Performing opportunity for young people (16+)

24th August 2018

Are you 16 or over and interested in acting, singing, dancing, puppetry, poetry or playing music? Paper Finch Theatre are putting on a performance for children at the Pitsmoor Adventure Playground. They are looking for [Read more]

Your local area – it’s funny

6th August 2018

It’s funny As read by community development worker Safiya Saeed, at the recent Active Burngreave Celebration. It’s funny It’s funny how I stopped covering my grey hair to hide my age It’s funny how I [Read more]

All aboard The Lucky Gordon

18th June 2018

Story and poem by Asea Abdulla | Photos by Rob Smith and Fran Belbin On the 19th of May me and people from the Pitsmoor community had a pirate party to celebrate the launch of [Read more]

“We walked England before the English”

19th March 2018

Story by Craig Broadwith | Photos by Tristram Kenton ‘Black Men Walking’ is play written by Testament (aka Huddersfield based rapper Andy Brooks) for Sheffield’s Eclipse Theatre Group, and based on a real walking group, [Read more]