Category: News

  • Newsletter Archives

    Morning all. Just a quick note to say that we have started publishing our newsletters in a an archive on this site. You can find them in news section in the navigation menu.

  • The Story of Meersbrook Hall

    Local archeologist / historian Ken Dash has written a new book, “The Story of Meersbrook Hall”. Published by Friends of Meersbrook Hall, all proceeds go towards re-opening and restoring the hall This is the story of Meersbrook Hall, a Georgian mansion built in 1759 for Benjamin Rosebuck and occupied by the Shore family from 1778…

  • Arms around the Hall

    Heres some drone shots while the community linked arms around the entire hall during the picnic last weekend. Looks fabulous doesn’t it?

  • Lovely day for a picnic!

    Thanks to everyone who came to our absolutely splendid and successful Community Picnic at Meersbrook Park today to celebrate the reopening of Meersbrook Hall by the Friends of Meersbrook Hall in partnership with Sheffield City Council it was our very first event and raised much needed funds for the hall. Our wonderful bookmarks and brooches…

  • The Hall in the news!

    Thanks to the ITV Calendar team who came to the hall yesterday to see everyone working hard on the clean up. https://www.itv.com/watch/news/campaign-group-hoping-to-save-18th-century-mansion-run-weekend-clean-up-event/tn7hs6r

  • Clean Up Weekend Update

    Thanks to everyone who came to the first day of our ‘Big Clean Up Weekend’. They went through the hall like a whirlwind and gave it a scrub, dust and polish and some much needed TLC. It’s been a long time coming but we finally got the keys on Thursday and now we’re looking forward…

  • Heritage Open Days Fully Booked

    We are pleased to say that the heritage tours are now fully booked. We will be running more tours in the future so please wait for next dates. Thank you

  • Heritage Open Days

    We’ve made the Sheffield heritage Open Days 2026 Brochure thanks to our friend Janet Ridler. Do you know about Heritage Open Days?

  • FOMH in the News

    The Friends of Meersbrook Hall have been in the news: BBC News – Sheffield residents launch fundraiser to save Meersbrook Hall – BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyq78w271wo One correction that needs to be made clear is that the hall hasn’t been empty since 2016 and the Heeley Trust used it successfully up until 2023. The trust could…