by J Robin Hughes | Apr 28, 2023
We aim to record talks given by invited speakers to our bi-monthly meetings and with their permission publish them via this YouTube channel. by J Robin Hughes | Apr 28, 2023
Chris Corker, Chair of Portland Works Board of Directors, delivers a presentation ‘The Dirty, the Idle, the Drunken and the Disorderly’: People, Public Health, Politics and Philanthropy in 19th Century Sheffield. This presentation was part of the Joined Up Heritage... by J Robin Hughes | Apr 28, 2023
In the 1770s the Duke of Norfolk had a waggonway laid from his Manor collieries into town. This became one of the first cast-iron railways and may well have contained some of the earliest railway infrastructure in the world. This presentation given at our meeting on... by J Robin Hughes | Apr 28, 2023
Tom Wolfenden, CEO of Sheffield Technology Parks, in partnership with James O’Hara of Rockingham Group, has won the bid to run Leah’s Yard as part of the wider Heart of the City development programme. Leah’s Yard, in Sheffield city centre, is currently... by J Robin Hughes | Apr 28, 2023
This presentation is given by Dr Patrick Harrison, Department of Biology & Marine Science, University of Hull at the Joined Up Heritage Sheffield bi-monthly meeting on 25th January 2022. The aim of the Ochre Dyke Wildlife Corridor is to link up and enhance sites... by J Robin Hughes | Apr 28, 2023
Whilst most local people know of ‘Graves Park’ named after Sheffield philanthropist and benefactor Alderman J.G. Graves, few understand the origins of Sheffield’s largest public open space. Community-based research on history, heritage, archaeology and ecology has now...
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