• Annual General Meeting followed by Immortal Words – Story of a Funeral Director

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    The first part of the evening will be taken by the business of the Society Annual General Meeting. This will be followed by an illustrated talk by Jason Heath, member of the well known local family of funeral directors. Lecture Hall, Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel Meeting Rooms (Napier Street entrance).  Doors open at 7:00 pm.  Admission free […]

  • Victorian Killers – what killed ordinary people

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    AGM, followed by Brian Smailes, a new speaker to our programme of talks, who gives an insight into the killers of ordinary adults and children during the 1880s, including every day items such as babies feeding bottles, corsets and wallpaper.

  • Written in Stone – Family Reconstruction from Fulwood Graveyard, Sheffield

    Your own home

    Members only Zoom meeting     In this talk, Society Member Judith Pitchforth, will give an overview of the history of burials in Sheffield and then talk about Fulwood and where it is in Sheffield.  Judith will then explain why the church was built when Victoria came to the throne and look at some of the burials […]

    Free
  • AGM followed by ‘Bishops’ House, 500 years of a Derbyshire farmhouse’

    Aizlewood Business Centre, Aizlewood's Mill, Nursery Street, Sheffield S3 8GG Nursery Street, Sheffield

    The AGM will be held at 2 pm, directly followed by 'Bishops' House, 500 years of a Derbyshire Farmhouse', a talk by Ken Dash on Sheffield's best preserved timber framed building and museum.

    Free