New Hawley Gallery will open at Kelham Island Museum in March
(News release: 08 March 2010)
The Hawley Collection, a unique and internationally important display of tool making, cutlery manufacture and silversmithing tools has been given a permanent home at Kelham Island Museum in Sheffield and will open its doors to the public on Wednesday 17th March 2010.
Thanks to a significant grant of £595,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), the former Wheatman and Smith Saw Works building at Kelham Island Museum has been renovated to create the Hawley Gallery, a permanent home for the prestigious collection.
The Collection was assembled over a working lifetime by Sheffield tool retailer Ken Hawley who began collecting the tools in the 1950s.
John Hamshere, Chief Executive of Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust said,
“This is the first time that the entire Hawley Collection has had a gallery dedicated to showing the full scope of the items.
“The Gallery will feature a programme of temporary exhibitions, talks and family activities that will enable the wider community to admire and learn more about the items in the Collection and it will add an interesting dimension to the new Kelham Island Museum.
“We are delighted that the Collection has relocated to Kelham Island as this is a fitting location for it to have a permanent home.”
Gathered mostly from Sheffield and Yorkshire, but also from Britain and the rest of the world, the Collection now contains over 100,000 objects including tools and related catalogues, photographs, films and oral histories.
The new Hawley Gallery has four interconnected areas: Starting the Journey, Investigating Design, Investigating Making and Investigating Selling and has been created to show the range and scope of the Collection as well as to encourage active exploration and discovery of the story of Sheffield’s tool making heritage.
Alison Duce, Head of Curatorial Services for Sheffield Industrial Museums Trust and the Hawley Project Coordinator said,
“We have been extremely busy developing the first exhibition to feature within the Hawley Gallery, which tells of the life and designs of Wallace Smythe who worked for Mappin & Webb and will be 100 years old this February.
“We hope to make all of the exhibitions interactive and encourage new ways for our visitors to explore the site, including trails and workshops.”
For more information see the website www.simt.co.uk or contact Judith Smith or Jenny Bland on 0114 276 2602, or e-mail audiences@simt.co.uk
Yorkshire representatives amongst first to compete on Olympic Park
March 2010
Sporting representatives from Yorkshire were amongst some of the first athletes to compete on the Olympic Park ahead of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games on Sunday, 7th March as they took part in the inaugural ‘Newham London Run’.
Ben Brailsford, Sheffield City Council’s 2012 Delivery Manager and James Tabberer from regional initiative, Yorkshire Gold joined Oliver Coppard, Barnsley Newham Partnership Manager who organised the Yorkshire contingent to take part in the first race to take place at the London 2012 Olympic Park, alongside 3500 other runners.
Although still a major construction site, the 10k race gave participants a chance to see the scale and progress of the Olympic Park, which is currently being constructed in East London, taking them straight past the giant Olympic Stadium that will host the opening ceremony of the Games on 27th July 2012.
Ben commented
“Although there were hoardings up and the developers still have some way to go before the area is finished, it was great to get a sense of what the Olympic park will be like and see the venues first hand.
“We celebrated 1000 days to go until the opening ceremony just before Christmas and running around the Olympic Park really highlighted to me what an amazing year 2012 will be, not only for London but the whole of the UK – Yorkshire included!”
The Yorkshire region has an on-going commitment to ensuring that the area benefits from all the opportunities presented by London hosting the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012.
In Sheffield, the Lighting the Flame for Sport partnership, led by Sheffield City Council has identified six themes where it believes the city and surrounding area can benefit from London 2012. Work includes attracting international athletes and teams to base themselves in the South Yorkshire region for training camps in the lead up to London 2012, as well as initiatives to encourage members of the local communities to take part in sport and volunteering schemes.
In 2008, Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council signed an agreement with the London Borough of Newham, the principal host borough for the Games to work in partnership on a range of joint activities in the lead up to London 2012 across a wide range of fields, including sport, culture, volunteering, health and enterprise, with a strong focus on young people. The Barnsley Newham partnership work in conjunction with the Sheffield – Lighting the Flame for Sport partnership.
The London borough of Newham is at the centre of London's plans for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The Games will see an 80,000-seater stadium built in Stratford - which will also be at the heart of a prestigious new development, Stratford City, comprising 4,500 new homes and nearly half a million square metres of office space, hotels, schools and a shopping centre.
For further information, please visit www.sheffield-lightingtheflame.com
Sheffield gastro pub launches Forgotten Cuts Week
March 2010
Award winning Sheffield gastro pub The Milestone, has unveiled the second instalment of their ever popular 2010 Nose to Tail weeks, with a new theme focused on ‘Forgotten Cuts’ dedicated to ‘forgotten’ favourites and traditional dishes from the past.
Ox liver, lambs heart and twice braised tripe are not common dishes these days, but the flavoursome cuts are back on the menu at the Sheffield gastro pub during the week-long ‘Forgotten Cuts’ event , launching on Monday 5th April.
The Milestone is encouraging guests to rediscover the less fashionable but tastier cuts of meat and try out dishes that would have been all too familiar to our mothers and grandmothers.
Matt Bigland owner of The Milestone said:
“These cuts of meat definitely deserve more of our attention and we’re aiming to show guests that the flavours they deliver can be incredible.
“It’s a shame that some of these cuts have gradually fallen out of fashion in favour of the more well-know cuts, but hopefully we will get people trying out dishes they may never have heard of and realising what they’re missing!”
The idea of the Nose to Tail week is to enable The Milestone chefs to use an animal in its entirety and butcher the whole carcass, using everything from the ‘Nose to Tail’ of an animal to provide a wide variety of cuts of meat.
The Milestone, who were awarded a prestigious Michelin-recommendation in the latest Michelin guide to eating out in pubs 2010 and last year scooped ‘Restaurant of the Year 2009’ at the eatSheffield Awards, will use Forgotten Cuts Week as a creative way to inspire guests to imaginative dishes from times past but which are new to them.
Further details about The Milestone and Forgotten Cuts Week are available at www.the-milestone.co.uk