Regeneration of Phoenix Mill It is excellent news that a grant of £625,000 has been awarded by Historic England for the regeneration of the Grade ll listed Phoenix Mill on Wakefield Waterfront. The money will…
Unfortunately, this event haas been cancelled Visitors are welcome at this Gissing Centre event.
The Victoria and Albert Museum and New York’s Metropolitan Museum are competing to purchase the Deposition, a rare medieval English ivory sculpture. Unless the Victoria and Albert can raise the £2m by 14 June, it will go…
Duke of York Monument on Manygates Lane A Sandal resident wrote to our Society concerned about the state of the monument on Manygates Lane which commemorates the site of Richard Duke of York’s death in…
Wakefield Word and Black Horse Poets celebrate #WMC100 Wakefield Museum, 23rd February 2024 5.30-6.30pm Wakefield Museums & Castles turned 100 in 2023! As part of our centenary celebrations, we picked 100 fascinating objects to represent our…
LGBTQI History Month: Sexuality and Socialism. 1-4pm, Saturday 24th February: Labour Club (The Red Shed) WF1 1QX Speakers: Professor Paul Salveson How in England in 1880s and 1890s a gay writer explored Socialism and how Socialists, particularly…
A new Historic England Heritage Assets Guide to textile mills is available. It provides a general history of textile mills, the development of the buildings themselves, and how they were powered. It considers changes as…
From their January newsletter – some information about events organised by the charity, and updates on progress: Following the ecological appraisal there have been several site meetings to ensure that any work we undertake has…
Buildings at Risk Register 2023 published Historic England has recently published its annual regional reports on Buildings at Risk in 2023. The lists include not only listed buildings, but also Places of Worship, Archaeological Sites,…
Working with Wakefield Museum Wakefield Museum chose 100 objects from the collections to represent the 100th anniversary of the Museum in 2023, and they asked us and the Civic Society to ask members to choose…