The City of York Council has voted for the go ahead of the new English Heritage visitor centre attached to 750 year old Clifford’s Tower

From Sheffield University students

Whilst we are an apolitical group, the committee of FOSC are unanimous in our objections to the plans to scrap A Level Archaeology. Tony Robinson

If you travel to far-flung and exotic locations, please send us a photo of you in your FOSC t-shrt! Here’s Nick – can you guess

The Friends are delighted to confirm that we are now officialy a registered charity.  This is great news as it gives us a more professional

Students  marked the approximate outline of the Castle on the ground with black spray paint (with permission). They had positioned a time lapse camera on

Ron Clayton gives his individual review of the above. Peter Machan has provided Sheffielders with another lavishly illustrated, fact packed yet readable and modestly priced

A great article ran in the Yorkshire Post recently, written by the acclaimed journalist Stephen McClarence. We also had a double page spread in the

The first set of hoardings on site….

There was a nice article on the group in the Sheffield Star recently http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/volunteers-aim-to-recreate-history-with-once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-to-uncover-sheffield-castle-ruins-1-7936180

Senior Structural Engineer Steve Mettam sent us some  photographs taken of the bastion tower ruins during their pre-demolition surveys in early 2014. The subterranean ‘low

I’ve been giving some thought to how to show people the size of the castle. I think many are like me and 4.2 acres doesn’t