Weddings @ Sheffield Manor Lodge

We are now licensed for weddings in our historic Turret House!!

We have licensed 3 of the rooms in the Turret House and can now hold intimate ceremonies for 20 to 30 people or if you're planning an outdoor wedding you can marry in the ancient doorway with your guests seated outside where the numbers are limitless!

You can also order delicious home made canapés from our Rhubarb Shed café to enjoy out on the lawn with a glass or two of fizz before heading off to you reception!

We are so excited about being able to hold weddings on our site as its something we've been planning for years!
Details will be available soon on our website and brochures will be back from the printers any day now, but in the meantime for more information, prices & availability email our wedding coordinator Shelley at shelley.hughes@greenestate.org

Photographer: www.diamondsanddoodles.co.uk
Pompoms: www.facebook.com/RevintagedInteriors
Brides Dress: www.emilybridalwear.co.uk
Flowers: www.sarahsflorist.co.uk

Forgotten Castle Painting to be on Display in the Turret House

Look out for the new Exhibition opening soon at Sheffield Manor Lodge's Turret House on the Sheffield Castle.

 

 

 

The original oil painting of Sheffield Castle by renowned Sheffield artist Kenneth Steel, has found its way back to Sheffield. This magnificent five by four foot painting, originally commissioned in 1950  by the Brightside and Carbrook Cooperative store headquarters in Angel Street, has for a number of years been in store in Manchester.

Following negotiations with the Society through one of the Friends of Manor Lodge, we have arranged for this superb picture to be displayed in the Turret House as part of a new exhibition telling the story of the medieval castle and the link with the Manor Lodge.

We are also discovering more about the under-regarded  artist. It turns out that Kenneth Steel, who lived in Crookes, was a prolific artist who is most famous for producing the iconic images for the famous railway posters of the 1930s and 40s.

Exciting new Pictorial Meadow Tours available in Sheffield this summer

 

Love  Flowers? Seen the wonderful images of the Olympic Park Meadows and want to know a bit more about their origins back home in Sheffield? This summer were offering 4 public Garden Tours at our base at Manor Lodge which will take you behind the scenes of the fascinating development of these designed landscapes. You’ll never look at a packet of meadow seed again in the same way...

 

 

One month to go for Big Lad and Freddie

 

We love our Clydesdale Big Lad and his mate Freddy but like everyone else in this Company he just has to pull his weight. This winter, instead of just standing around and looking pretty, he’s been hard at work with the rest of us.

In September along with his two legged Team Mates Max, Ethel and Nathan he’s been working across Sheffield’s Woodlands as part of the planned woodland management programme.

Felling unwanted timber in steeply sloping woods is one thing, extracting the timber in a way that doesn’t damage the precious understory vegetation is quite a different matter. But that’s where traditional horse logging with Heavy Horses such as Big Lad and Freddy prove their value.

They get into areas that no tractor could get to and instead of the devastation caused by just one day tractor work a whole season of hoof prints are hardly noticeable. Just one month now to go to finish the last wood and he can come back to enjoying his Spring Holidays

 

 

Mini-Allotments still available

 

There are a few hints that Spring may be just around the corner. Now’s the time to take the plunge and join our lovely Mini Allotment Group. Bags of support and encouragement in a friendly environment. 

It’s the Bees Knees

 

 

Bees at Manor Lodge are in for another dose of pampering. Last Year they exceeded all our expectations in producing almost 150lbs of delicious honey despite the awful weather. The secret ingredient we all suspect of course is all the easy to locate flower meadows.

This spring they are about to find their hives transported into  a luxury new Bee House. It’s a bit like Parkhill Flats but without the English Heritage restrictions. 7 Hives get housed in a restored barn and each has their own front door. Whilst around the back visitors schools and trainee bee keepers can observe and manage them – all in the dry.

To help them find their way back safely, each hive has a specially designed and colour coded motif to home in on. Perhaps we should suggest this idea to Urban Splash?

Latest Playground designs for Manor Fields starting to shape up

 

One last major project is planned for Manor Fields Park with funding from Section 106. This will include the  creation of  a play area for younger children along side improvements to the wetlands and stream line close to the new City Road York House Entrance Way.

Design work is almost finished and we hope work may start on site early summer with completion for mid August. For anyone wanting to learn more or get more involved with this great site there is an active Friends Group who meet regularly and who would welcome new members

To contact us about any of these stories email  info@greenestate.org