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July 2008 The fitness circuit is formally opened on 5th July when it is the NHS Pulse Event organised by Green City Days. Although the weather is poor for much of the day there is the chance to walk the fitness circuit - or running track, if you are feeling particularly athletic - in the morning. The track has 100m "feet" posts to help those who are exercising guage the distance they are running or walking. |
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May 2008 The FoHP help out in the Walled Garden at the 2-day Green City Days event - selling plants, making hanging baskets and stamping cards for those taking part in the scrap-van-lucky-dip trail (you probably had to do it to understand what was happening). Lots of people visited the garden - more on the Monday than the Sunday - and it was enlivened briefly by a leak from one of greenhouse water pipes which managed to drench one end of the greenhouse. |
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April 2008 The two new Walled garden greenhouses were installed in 2007 and all of the plant racking then had to be converted from 3x3 trays (which fit into the old single greenhouse) to smaller 3x2 tray racks to fit into the two new narrower greenhouses. This involved re-making all 8 racks - making 208 cuts on the 208 sections of aluminium angle bar, drilling 320 new holes and assemling the racks back together with 672 nuts/bolts and 160 corner stays. And all ready for the seeds and plants now growing in the greenhouses. |
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December 2007 This year the Christmas Festival was held on 9th December and after last year's awful weather we decided to have a smaller event in the Walled Garden. We secured Art-in-the-Park, Deepcar Brass Band, a sax quartet from the Yorkshire Wind Orchestra, fire juggling by Dave Panther and there were other activities for children with the Libraries Staff and the SCC Rangers. The Friends provided the raffle, refreshments and arranged for Santa to visit. |
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July 2007 Arts workshops were organised for local schools to create a couple of pieces of art for the new pavilion. The Friends secured a £2500 grant from the Local Young People's Fund to pay for these activities which were also facilitated by the SCC Rangers and initially took place in the Pavilion. Both the mobile and the tapestry (being worked on in the picture) are still to be completed and then displayed in the Pavilion. |
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We also organised the Summer Fun Day - which was intended to be a day full of sporting activities from fishing to unicycling. Sadly, the appalling weather on the 15th July meant that it was relatively poorly attended. Apart from some people who took no notice of the rain - or those that spent time fishing under umbrellas - the efforts of Activity Sheffield, the Friends, HASA and the Rangers went largely un-noticed. |
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May 2007 The second Walled Garden Open Day was another success. This time the Friends sold plants and refreshments and students from Hillsborough College organised face-painting and other activities for children. |
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March 2007 The Walled Garden Open Day between 12 noon and 4.00pm on 31st March brought in some 200 people into the garden on a lovely spring afternoon. There were refreshments, plants for sale, activities for children, consultation about development of the garden and, in conjunction with the Library, books for sale. Folk music was provided, to the accompaniment of the fountain in the centre of the garden, by 2 members of Johnny and the Prison Didn’t Help Boys. |
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February 2007 We can now see signs of spring in the park and our hard work in November paying off. The crocuses are coming into bloom under the rowan trees near Penistone Road and there are even more daffodils this year towards the Hawksley Road entrance |
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December 2006
The number of stalls and stallholders was greater this year than in 2005 and we had the opportunity to use the new Pavilion. This was used for some of the entertainments as well as having the Bowls Club doing sterling work providing teas and coffees. The SCC Rangers consulted on proposed developments to the Coach House, courtyard and
The only disadvantage was the weather – which turned out to be wet and windy for the majority of the day. This reduced the number of people who attended to around 1000 to 1500 – some 500 less than last year when the weather was glorious. There was a steady flow of visitors from 11.00 a.m. but by about 3.00 p.m. those who were still on site were either warming themselves and drying out in the pavilion or holding down the market stalls which threatened to take-off in the increasing winds. All-in-all, it was a good day – but with better weather it could have been so much more fun. |
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November 2006 In November we planted 3000 crocus bulbs, which were supplied by Streetforce, around 3 of trees that we had bought last year. These are the three sorbus trees that are between the tennis courts and the path running parallel to Penistone Road. With the 2 lime trees that we also bought last year (which complete the line of limes along Penistone Road) we hope that the aspect from the middle of the park towards the road will be a lot better and some of the traffic noise may also be reduced. 5 of us managed to plant all 3000 bulbs in a two-hour session and even had time to pose for photos. |
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In September we help to clear out the Coach House in order get it into a state where structural engineers can assess its suitability for turning into a café – if we can secure funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund for restoration of the Coach House, the surrounding yard, the Stable Block and proposed new access from the Walled Garden. Years of junk are skipped over a week. This can only happen when the pigeon mess has been professionally cleared up by a contractor. In practice he has to come twice as it is impossible to clamber over all of the accumulated junk to get into the corners of the building at one go. Some bins are salvaged for the
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August 2006
We were lucky enough to get 4 lots of shelving for the front of the greenhouse and 4 large compost bins. This has enabled us to present a much tidier area to the front and side of the greenhouse. The plants at the front look more saleable on the new shelves and the compost bins are already in use. A knock-on effect has been to tidy up and utilize the plant storing areas in the far corner of the
In order to get the compost bins in place (at the moment only 3 of the 4 are in use) there had to be a general tidy up of the north side of the greenhouse – clearing the existing compost bunkers and pruning back the surrounding plants. |
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July 2006 The Friends suggest staging the Sheffield Sport Relief mile in Hillsborough park. This will be one of the main events for the year that is organised jointly by the Hillsborough Park Regeneration Steering Group (
Sheffield City Council Ranger Service, Activity Sheffield and HASA do the majority of the organising on and before the 15th July. The Friends assist with stewarding – initially at the car park and then on key points around the track in the park.
The mile starts at HASA, goes out into the park, around the new running circuit and finishes back at HASA. Four separate start times are arranged so that groups are not too large for the paths around the park |
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July 2006 The Friends stage a production of the Wind in the Willows at HASA on a very hot Sunday afternoon. Some 50 children and adults attend the play, which is running in competition to the World Cup on TV, and all seem to have a good time.
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