🪟First of our 2024 Talks - Professor Turner's Glass Museum, looks at the huge strides made in glass technology during the Victorian era-From bigger windows to food storage & screens- glass is everywhere The Victorian Society Joined Up Heritage Sheffield Welcome to Sheffield

🟥Final Notice - John Parker of Sheffield Uni talks about the innovations of Victorian glass making-from tableware to food storage and the big panes seen in every modern city-7pm at Showroom5 Tuesday 6th Feb, see below 🫙🍺🪟 The Victorian Society Joined Up Heritage Sheffield Welcome to Sheffield

Extremely concerning for so many reasons. Demolition should always be a last resort and if efforts were underway to prevent this destruction .....? What is the threat now to the Mudford Building next door? The Victorian Society

⚙️Our March Talk will be Mary Garside on the Sheffield Workhouse - 6th March Showroom Cinema in Showroom5 at 7pm - courtesy of Sheffield Hospitals History Group 🏥 The Victorian Society Welcome to Sheffield Joined Up Heritage Sheffield

🤍Extra event for March - Tour of Sheffield Town Hall with Janet Ridler Cllr Janet Ridler & incl tea with the Lord Mayor - Friday 22nd March at 10am - Town Hall main entrance - Limited numbers so book early via Eventbrite bit.ly/3PaOGRg The Victorian Society Joined Up Heritage Sheffield

🚨 Our March event - Tour of Sheffield Town Hall is now SOLD OUT - Thanks everybody for booking so promptly and look forward to seeing you there. 🙂

Our last talk of the season before we head into the great outdoors for our summer of walks & visits 🏦Tuesday 16th April- Ernest george, Large Country Houses talk by Hilary Grainger of The Victorian Society Also our S Yorks AGM starting at 7pm, Showroom5 Joined Up Heritage Sheffield Welcome to Sheffield

⛪️Our June walk takes us to Ranmoor in Sheffield and St. John's Church. Learn about this relatively little known Victorian church with Mary Grover, part of her Scissors Paper Stone project. Refreshments at 4pm and choral concert at 6pm The Victorian Society Joined Up Heritage Sheffield Welcome to Sheffield

🪦July walk is open to book - Tour City Rd Cemetery with our Graham Hague- Laid out in 1878 with Catholic, Anglican & Non Conformist chapels as well as the crematoria buildings designed by M E Hadfield- Starts 2:30pm at the main entrance The Victorian Society Welcome to Sheffield Joined Up Heritage Sheffield

Went to look at Pontefract Castle today, entry free and very child friendly. Our children would have loved it when they were young. Pontefract Castle

🙁❌SOLD OUT - Our August walk - a guided tour of the suburb of Walkley in Sheffield, in the company of Walkley Historians is sold out, apologies if you missed out on this event. Our next walk will be in September for the Heritage Open Days event. Keep an eye out for that. 🙂❌

The Victorian Society is delighted to announce the appointment of James Grierson as Chair of the Society in succession to Professor Hilary Grainger OBE. Read more: bit.ly/4dxAdYF #heritage #Victorian #architecture #surveyor #charity #chair #boardoftrustees

🍴Our November Talk at the Showroom is by Nick Duggan of The Hawley Collection looking at their collection of Sheffield cutlery, from the Victorian era. 5th November, doors open 7pm talk at 7.30-When Sheffield ruled the🌍of afternoon tea The Victorian Society Kelham Island Museum Welcome to Sheffield

🖼️Pictures from our stall at the Rotherham History Fair on 19th October. Thanks Rotherham we had a great day and we'll be back next year. Victorian Rotherham has a lot to offer. Rotherham Council Rotherham Advertiser

Just a reminder that that this talk is in two weeks time and I'm really looking forward to getting my hands on some of the exhibits from the Hawley Collection housed in Kelham Island Museum Museum Let's hope we can solve some of the mysteries around the collections pieces Sheffield Museums

Following a great day in Rotherham we will also be at the *Doncaster Local History Fair* on Sat 16 November 2024 at DGLAM from 11am to 3pm. I hope we get to meet some of our Doncaster members and learn more about the city's heritage issues. 🙂 City of Doncaster Council Doncaster Free Press

Some good news for Sheffield's Victorian Heritage - The Salvation Army Citadel has been purchased by Sheffield City Council and therefore saved for the city. See the Now Then Magazine article here bit.ly/4e5chw2 The Victorian Society Joined Up Heritage Sheffield

Happening tomorrow !! Last chance to book or just turn up on the night A fascinating talk on the Hawley Collection and their Sheffield cutlery exhibits, some on hand to see as well Perhaps you can helkp them solve some of the mystery items? The Victorian Society Victorian Web Sheffield Museums

We have strong opinions about the demolition of 23-25 Haymarket, please see our statement below. Joined Up Heritage Sheffield Sheffield City Council The Star, Sheffield BBC Sheffield