Barnsley’s most unconventional museum
If you’re drawn to places that do things differently, Cawthorne Victoria Jubilee Museum in Barnsley is well worth a visit. What its volunteers modestly describe as a ‘Victorian hotchpotch’ is, in truth, the museum’s greatest charm. In this most unconventional of museums, founded in the 1880s and owned by the...
Cannon Hall: A Story of a House and its Family
For centuries, Cannon Hall in Barnsley has watched the world go by. Visitors have admired it, locals have walked past it and history has settled quietly into its walls, but the family who once called it home has often remained in the background. This May, a new exhibition brings them...
Discover Rotherham with a free guided tour
Explore Rotherham in a new light this summer by taking part in a free guided heritage walk led by Rotherham District Civic Society. With a focus on some of the town centre’s historic buildings, the walking tour highlights the architecture and stories that often go unnoticed in everyday life, ...
New sensory trail launches at Wentworth Church
You’ve no doubt walked past Wentworth’s historic church many a time. But this summer, visitors can experience it in a whole new way with a newly launched sensory trail designed to awaken sight, sound, touch and smell. Welcoming around 19,000 visitors each year, Wentworth Church is already a valued destination...
Rotherham’s Beer Festival is Baa’ck
After a year’s absence, one of Rotherham’s most beloved beer traditions is making a welcome return to Magna this spring. A familiar fixture on the local calendar since the early 1990s, Rotherham Real Ale and Music Festival is coming baa’ck this year with a fresh approach that feels very much...
Rock N Roll Circus returns to Sheffield this summer
Step right up and grab your tickets for the greatest show in town as Rock N Roll Circus returns to Sheffield this summer for its fourth year. The big top will be back at Don Valley Bowl over August Bank Holiday weekend for three days of music, magic and full-throttle...
TV’s Our Dementia Choir comes to Greasbrough
From tackling corruption on Line of Duty to tackling isolation through song, Vicky McClure’s impact off-screen will be heard in Rotherham this March when her Our Dementia Choir performs a special fundraising concert in Greasbrough. The concert is being organised by Rotherham Rotary Club who hope the evening will not...
Waldershelf Singers to perform Rutter’s Requiem at Bolsterstone St Mary
In a season associated with renewal, the luminous Requiem by John Rutter will be brought to light this April with a performance by Waldershelf Singers. The Stocksbridge-based amateur choir will be performing their annual spring concert at St Mary’s Church in Bolsterstone on Saturday 25th April. They will be joined...
Walk into wellbeing with South Yorkshire’s Ramblers groups
If you’re contemplating fresh starts and better habits in 2026, there’s no simpler, more uplifting resolution than pulling on your walking boots and joining your local Ramblers group. Here in our part of South Yorkshire, we have some fantastic volunteer-run groups where people of all ages and fitness levels meet...
A Valentine’s Weekend in Rotherham that hits all the right notes
This Valentine’s weekend, Rotherham is celebrating the thing it loves most: the creativity and musical skill of its own people.
