RichardB Posted October 4, 2007 Share Posted October 4, 2007 http://www.made-in-sheffield.com/People/johnruskin.htm Extract : Ruskin founded the Guild of St George in 1871 and first visited Sheffield in 1875 when the Guild founded the St George's Museum at Walkley. The museum was built to house a collection arranged by Ruskin for the people of Sheffield, including prints, plaster casts, drawings, illuminated manuscripts, books, minerals, geological specimens and coins. By 1890 the museum had outgrown the Walkley cottage and was moved to Meersbrook Park. ------------------------------------------- As a former Walkley resident, I wonder where the Museum was ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 More Ruskin here http://www.dorevillage.co.uk/doretodoorwin...ocalhistory.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 Original Ruskin Museum, Walkley (NB - not Meersbrook Park) http://www.bbc.co.uk/southyorkshire/featur...045_06827.shtml Still no idea exactly where it was :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardB Posted October 4, 2007 Author Share Posted October 4, 2007 http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/ruskinlib/Doc...ibliography.pdf Hackett, Lianne, Benjamin Creswisk: Living Testament to St George’s Museum at Walkley, Friends of Ruskin’s Brantwood Newsletter, Spring 2001 (not paginated). Close but no cigar :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Noise Heat Power Posted October 17, 2007 Share Posted October 17, 2007 In the mid-eighties, the Ruskin Gallery was opened on Norfolk Street round the corner from Tudor Square. It was a superb space and I must admit it's a real shame it's no longer there. It's a fascinating collection which is now in the Millennium Galleries, but the Norfolk Street space was perfect for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HughW Posted January 19, 2008 Share Posted January 19, 2008 Re the thread title - Ruskin died 20 Jan 1900 I think it was a tragedy when they shoe-horned the museum into its little box in the Millennium Gallery. They used to have excellent temporary exhibitions on themes that would have interested Ruskin. I remember particularly a fantastic one of old and modern calligraphy. The little craft gallery was always worth a vist. Ruskin House is between the Walkley Cottage and Rivelin Street. Most of what you can see is later than Ruskin's time, from when it was the 'Naughty Girls' Home'. The inscription above the door is from that era... GIRLS' TRAINING HOME RUSKIN HOUSE That our daughters may be as corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace Psalm 144:12 The house is now divided into flats. I can't find a picture on the web apart from the old ones at picture Sheffield which wouldn't help you recognize its current form. (I'll try and remember to take a picture next time I pass). Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HughW Posted March 13, 2008 Share Posted March 13, 2008 I can't find a picture on the web apart from the old ones at picture Sheffield which wouldn't help you recognize its current form. (I'll try and remember to take a picture next time I pass). Well it's only 2 months later... The older part is the part you can see to the left and rear. That is where the museum would have been. Martin Olive told me that the best view of that block is from Bell Hagg Road, if you go up somebody's steps a little way. The main door is in the newer part and faces to the left... Note the date, which I hadn't noticed before Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHB Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Former Ruskin Museum, Meersbrook Park. Map #264 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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