ACTIVE
Work to breathe new life into the redundant mill buildings in a local park has received praise from on high
Clegg backs mill work D
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EPUTY Prime Minister Nick Clegg was a recent visitor to
Millhouses Park to support work to bring the historic mill buildings back into use. The MP for Sheffield Hallam spent time with the Friends of Millhouses Park to learn more about their four-year battle to save the buildings from destruction. Working with the local council, the group has secured nearly £130,000 to kick-start the development and work has already begun on the small building to make it secure. However, the group still needs to raise another £9,000 to make the building weather-proof, energy self-sufficient and to take a big step towards the area being made available for use by the community.
Said the Deputy PM: “It is great news that, not for the first time, the Friends of Millhouses Park have come to the fore and are leading the project to bring these important historic buildings back into use.
“I am hugely impressed by the plans and I would urge everyone to get involved, particularly with the efforts to raise the necessary funding. “A mill has been on this site for more than 1,000 years. I’m sure that, with a little help and support, this exciting project will see the mill remain an asset for the local community for many more years to come.” The chair of the Friends of Millhouses Park, John Brighton, added: “Ultimately we hope that, with the support of people within the local area and beyond, we can bring these buildings back to life and start the next part of their history in the Millhouses area.”
Nick Clegg MP (centre) and John Brighton (left of Nick Clegg) with community campaigners at the mill buildings in Millhouses Park
Macbeth: After the apocalypse
Part of a module to give them experience of what working in a real theatre is like, the students, who are in the first year of a Foundation Degree in drama, are to stage the play in just a week.
A From bottom: Zainab Adeyemi, of Lowedges,Tom
Hill, of Nether Edge, Rachael Atkinson, of Abbeydale, Rashid Hussain and Jack
Murphy, both of Nether Edge 6
Set in a post-apocalyptic world, Macbeth will be performed at the Dyche Lane college on Thursday, March 14th and Friday, 15th.
Drama lecturer Jo Beadle said: “It’s very visual and it really is for everybody, not just Shakespeare buffs.
“We’ve made it accessible for everyone and we’ve shortened and tightened it. We’ve even got some junior school children coming to see it.”
Free performances will take place at 10.15am and 1.15pm, with evening shows at 7.15pm costing just £3.
For tickets, call Jo Beadle on 0114 2602397.
CONTEMPORARY production of Macbeth is being put on by drama students at Norton College.
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