The Friends had a very busy time over the weekend of 21-22nd February, with volunteers hard at work on site in Hemingfield on both Saturday and Sunday.
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Directors Steve and Glen were joined by a number of regular volunteers on what was another cold, but beautifully bright day on Saturday.
On Friday evening, the Friends of Hemingfield Colliery were privileged to be present at the unveiling of the restored Newcomen beam engine at Elsecar. The engine – a Scheduled Ancient Monument, No. SY1146, since June 1972 – is the only atmospheric engine in the world still in situ; still working in its original building and over the original mine shaft. Built in 1795 as the Dearne and Dove canal drew nearer, and the 4th Earl Fitzwilliam’s Elsecar collieries and industrial enterprises were being expanded, the engine has pumped billions of gallons of mine water during its working life – a run which officially ended in 1923 when electric pumps were installed by the the South Yorkshire Pumping Association – the same body that maintained the pumping stations at Hemingfield and over at Westfield in Rawmarsh.
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On Friday our team presented our work to our peers at the University of Sheffield. Our project was one of 14 being worked on by groups of masters students from the Sheffield School of Architecture and we had a great time seeing what all the other teams have been up to. If you are interested you can find out more here: http://www.liveprojects.org/
I would highly recommend any organisation to get involved in the University’s live projects scheme as it is a great way for us students to learn, and a great way to help push a real world project forward.
Going back to Friday; it was a really good day and the whole team was really pleased with how the presentation went. I speak for the team in saying thank you to Dave, Olivia, Rhys and Ross for their hard work in producing such an clear, well thought out and exciting presentation! I am sure they reciprocate…
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Today the Sheffield School of Architecture invited members of the public to come and see the final presentations of the 14 student Live Project teams.
Hosted in a lecture theatre at the University of Sheffield’s Medical School, the room was filled with students, clients and the wider public, all present to see what the teams had produced over the past 6 weeks of the Live Project initiative.
– For the Friends of Hemingfield Colliery it proved to be a day to remember!
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On Saturday 25th a team of students from the Sheffield School of Architecture hosted a community engagement event at Elsecar Heritage Centre.
Presenting an impressive array of interactive mapping, scale models, colourful history boards and striking sketch proposals, the Live Project team were active throughout the day from 11am to 4pm to explain and discuss their work so far, and to invite feedback from members of the local community and visitors alike as to the future development of the Hemingfield Colliery site. Outdoors and, when the weather turned, inside the centre, the group guided visitors around a series of displays, including:-
Yesterday was a really great day.
We set up just outside the visitors centre at the Elsecar Heritage Centre in the morning and had a really good turn out of people coming to check out what we have been up to. We had to move inside in the afternoon thanks to the rain but that also worked out really well.
During the day we met some really interesting people from both nearby and further afield, all of whom had some great thoughts on the site and the area as a whole. We had some great ideas from all the people we met, and it was great to see so much enthusiasm for this historic site.
Several of us also got the chance to head over to the heritage railway where we met some of the steam team and also got to have a look around at all their very…
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The Live Project team from Sheffield School of Architecture will be holding a community engagement event seeking your input on the future development of the site. The event takes place this weekend at the Elsecar Heritage Centre. Please drop by, see the information and share your thoughts!
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