The Bennerley Viaduct cafe will be open on Wednesdays during the school half term holidays, offering a range of seasonal refreshments from 10am to 2pm on 21st and 28th October, alongside our usual Thursday-Sunday opening hours. If you’re out enjoying an autumn walk across the viaduct or along the canals, drop in for lunch or…
Volunteering for FoBV is an education, and we always want our volunteers to learn from the best. Last month we were lucky enough to benefit from the expertise of Jason Mordan, Nottinghamshire County Council’s historic restoration officer. Jason explained and demonstrated the method of mixing and applying lime mortar to the brickwork of the viaduct’s…
Volunteers from the Friends of Bennerley Viaduct organise a regular programme of public tours; we also welcome pre-booked groups such as the three local groups that visited in September. These included 25 people from Derby Social Circle, 15 from Thom’s Blokes, a men’s social group based at St Thomas’ Church in Chesterfield, and a group…
Spurred on by a successful tour last year, the Iron to Iron cycle ride is going ‘back2back’! The national bike ride fundraiser for Friends of Bennerley Viaduct kicks off on Sunday 13th September and this time the peloton is starting in the east. The intrepid cyclists plan to ride from Great Yarmouth to Bennerley Viaduct,…
Our hard-working team of volunteers have been busy making improvements to footpaths on and around the site. Completion of the visitor centre has allowed the vehicular route below the viaduct to be reopened, enabling us to take delivery of much-needed woodchip. Volunteers have been hard at work with wheelbarrows and rakes to reinstate the woodland…
An estimated 2000 people – the most believed to have ever been on the deck at one time – assembled on Bennerley Viaduct to view the partial eclipse of the sun on August 12th. Crowds converged on the deck of the viaduct to get a grandstand view of the celestial spectacle, setting up deck chairs…
Bennerley Viaduct’s visitor centre and café was opened to the public on Saturday 18th July with an official ribbon-cutting ceremony hosted by Claire Ward, Mayor of the East Midlands Combined County Authority. The sunny weather provided pleasant conditions for members of the public, Friends of Bennerley Viaduct volunteers and a host of local politicians who…
Vintage vehicles and the unique heritage of Bennerley Viaduct will come together on Friday 4th September at a fundraising dinner at Great Northern Classics to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the start of construction of Bennerley Viaduct. The event, which is tipped as ‘an unforgettable evening celebrating in the building where the Iron Giant was…
Do you have great communication and organisational skills, want to gain experience and confidence in a hospitality environment, and can commit between 3-6 hours a week? We are seeking volunteers to help out in the new Visitor Centre cafe from Wednesday to Sunday when it opens this month. Tasks involve serving customers, preparing food and…
In June, we celebrated our 10th anniversary as a group. Members of the organisation, past, present, and future, came together on Bennerley Viaduct for a drone photoshoot. Once we had captured the cover for the front of our annual calendar, we headed to a local cafe that has become a favourite of ours since our…