Monday 14th saw the club welcome Ashley Tuck describing the exciting work of Wessex Archaeology since 2016 in the excavation of Sheffield’s large, old castle, sadly razed to the ground after the Civil War. Graeme Back’s blog will be posted under previous talks shortly.
Due to bank holidays, our next meeting is the AGM on 12th May after which a buffet lunch will be served to those attending this important meeting in the club’s calendar.
Looking beyond, our meeting on the 19th May – just one week later, we look forward to Alan Baker’s talk “Plants with Mettle”. Alan is a world expert on metal loving plants. His fascination with these plants originated with the ones growing in the old mine workings in the Peak District.
As this is nearly one month away take a little time to look at the report on our visit to the Hepworth Gallery which you can find under visits. A party of 32 members and their partners had a day-long visit to the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield on Wednesday, 2nd April, to see for themselves what head gardener Katy Merrington had described to us in a well-received a Zoom talk during COVID lockdown in February 2022.
Our 2025 Annual General Meeting has been confirmed for Monday, 12th May.
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