The title suggests that the talk would be about the autumn colours of the trees in New England. Not so! Bob Gellatly is a railway enthusiast and it was about a railway journey he took, with his wife to various parts of New England in the autumn of 2013 and the emphasis was on the … Read more
If you like mystery stories –dark nights, isolated houses, dodgy characters- and having your imagination tickled, this story had the lot. One of our members, Michael Rose, kept us spellbound as he outlined the plot set in 1889 in a time and place of which we knew little. On the 30th of January that fateful … Read more
We enjoyed a most successful outing to Bletchley Park where the Nazi and Japanese ciphers were broken during World War II. Visiting coaches must park off site. Setting down and pick up times have to be booked weeks in advance. Our drop off time was 11am requiring a 7.30 am departure from Sheffield but as the … Read more
As a newcomer to Probus and an even newer member of the panel of bloggers, it is coincidental – and fortuitous from my point of view – that the subject matter for my maiden contribution is something with which I was already familiar. The title of Ann Beedham’s very interesting talk is also the title … Read more
The ‘Woodland Trust’ is an organisation, which if it did not already exist, would have to be invented. It was founded in 1972 by a retired farmer and agricultural machinery dealer by the name of Kenneth Watkins, in Devon. By 1977 he had acquired 22 woods. The purpose of the Trust is to sympathetically manage … Read more