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  • The Great Sheffield Deer Park

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    To begin our programme of talks for 2020, David Templeman takes an informal look at Sheffield's 8 mile medieval and tudor deer park, one of the largest privately owned in the country.          

  • The Maybrick Murder

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    In a change to our previously advertised talk, we welcome for the first time, Alan Hancock to talk about the murder by Florence Maybrick of her husband James, who was suspected of being the notorious serial killer Jack the Ripper.

  • 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.

  • The History of the Humble Fork and Fun Quiz *CANCELLED*

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    *THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED* Join us for a talk illustrated by physical artefacts in the form of various types of cutlery, given by Paul Iseard, Friends of Portland Works and take part in a light hearted fun quiz

  • Sheffield Family History Fair *POSTPONED*

    CROWNE PLAZA ROYAL VICTORIA SHEFFIELD HOTEL Victoria Station Road, Sheffield, United Kingdom

    *POSTPONED TO 2021.   NEW DATE TO BE ARRANGED* The society is pleased to announce that it will be holding its next family history fair at the Royal Victoria Hotel on the 2nd May 2020. Exhibitors Booked for the Fair Ancestral Routes Bradfield Historical Society Barnsley Family History Society Chesterfield and District Family History Society Chris […]

  • Away From It All *CANCELLED*

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    *THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED* This month we welcome back Mike Higginbottom who looks at the history of leisure away from home, covering the spas and watering places that rich people frequented from Tudor times onwards and the seaside holiday towns which grew up in Victorian times when the railway system enabled ordinary working people to […]

  • Mi Amigo *CANCELLED*

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    *THIS MEETING IS CANCELLED*  Barry Darwin is a new speaker to our programme and tells the story of Mi Amigo, the World War 2 American flying fortress B17 bomber which crashed in Endcliffe Park in February 1944, killing all 10 crew members and narrowly missing children who were playing in the park.

  • CANCELLED

    Visit to Sheffield Town Hall

    Sheffield Town Hall Pinstone Street, Sheffield

    "THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED TILL FURTHER NOTICE"

  • Talks programme for the remainder of 2020

    Cemetery Road Baptist Chapel, Napier Street entrance Sheffield

    Due to the ongoing situation regarding Covid 19 and concerns for the safety of Members, the Committee has decided to cancel the talks programme for the remainder of 2020. We hope you are all keeping safe and well and look forward to seeing you again in 2021.

  • Zoom Meeting – Zion Graveyard

    Your own home

    MEMBER ONLY MEETING Penny Read, Chair of the Friends of the Zion Graveyard, will give a talk about how the group fought to save the graveyard in Attercliffe and the notable people who are buried there, including Mary Anne Rawson, a leading light in the abolition of slavery. NB    Not a Member?  Please see the Membership […]

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