Graeme Beck Our speaker Martin Rowley made a welcome return following his earlier talk to us on The Sheffield Gang Wars in August 2023. This week Martin gave us a talk on not only motorsport in the 1960s but extended this to include commentary on The Goodwood Festival of Speed held annually at the stately home of … Read more
Our 2024 year started with the welcome return of John Hull for a third appearance following his previous talks on The Siege of Leningrad and The Peterloo Massacre, and we had a delve into the life of William Morris, well known for his wallpaper and textile designs but less well known as a writer, poet, … Read more
Geoff Gill, Emeritus Professor of International Medicine at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Liverpool University, and a retired NHS Consultant Physician, gave us an illuminating talk on the privations and diseases experienced by Allied prisoners of war during the building of the Burma railway. He gave an often harrowing account of the suffering experienced … Read more
Sue Turner is a volunteer at not only Whirlow Brook Park but also Friends of the Porter Valley and keen on the history of all of Sheffield’s parks. Sue explained that initially restoration of the rock garden at Whirlow Brook was started by a U3A group founded as recently as 2021 but The Friends of … Read more
Roger kicked off S10’s Probus 2021 with a fascinating talk about the development of The Brent Oil field by a UK/Dutch joint venture comprising of Shell UK and Exxon Mobile. Roger qualified as a mechanical engineer and joined Shell in 1972 and after an apprenticeship in Holland went on to work on oil rigs around the world … Read more
This week we enjoyed a very informative and well-presented talk on a forgotten Antarctic explorer Barbara originally trained as a nurse then training as a midwife first coming to Sheffield in 1971 she then worked in Switzerland and Canada returning to the city to work on the renal transplant programme after some time she then … Read more