Heritage

Heritage  2026

• Venue: Brodsworth Hall and Gardens, near Doncaster.

• Date: Tuesday July 7th.
• Cost: £25.
• Time: Leave 9.00am from Morrison’s Mans Woodhouse.
• Transport: Coach.
• Departing venue: Brodsworth 5.00pm.
• Booking open at May Meeting.
• For further details contact: Liz Wilson.
• Brodsworth Hall, (English Heritage) as it is now, was built in the 1860s, and the ground floor rooms still recall the Hall in its hey day, with glittering chandeliers and marble statues, but as you look through the house the picture shows how the  last owner fought a losing battle against subsidence and leaking roofs, making do and mending with dwindling funds and ever fewer servants.  As a result, the mansion remains as she left it- a country house as it really was.
• Particular rooms to look at include the large Victorian kitchen with its impressive cooking range  and the  Aga kitchen and scullery, with the original housekeeper’s chair.
• The Hall’s history is brought to life by changing exhibitions and  there are friendly room stewards to give you information.
• Over the past 30 years English Heritage have been restoring Brodsworth’s extensive gardens with brilliant weeding, formal topiary and the Fern Dell plus quirky garden buildings.

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• Venue: Sherwood Observatory.

• Date: Wednesday 25th November.
• Cost: £8
• Time: Meet at the Observatory for 6.15pm – Tour start at 6.30pm.
• Transport: Make your own way there.
• Departing venue: Leave at 8.00pm.
• Booking open at  August Meeting.
• For further details contact: Claire Wilkie.
• Sherwood Observatory is a new multi million pound visitor attraction located in the heart of Ashfield.  It has been constructed on the site of a stunning Victorian reservoir building and offers a unique opportunity to explore the wonders of space and science. The observatory aims to make astronomy, science and other engaging topics accessible to all through its fully accessible planetarium and Space Centre.
• The building consists of firstly,  the original telescope,  in a 6.5 metre diameter dome. The telescope is a 0.61 metre Newtonian reflecting telescope which rotates.
• The observatory now features also, a 59 seat Dome with an immersive 10 metre diameter screen for planetarium shows. There is also an underground exhibition space, a science discovery centre and the café, all run by the Academy Transformation Trust Further Education College.
• The observatory has proved so popular since opening, that it was recently given money to employ extra staff!

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