John Abel

Chris Turk has invested in the Sheffield based Cochabamba Project .  It provides an opportunity to support homeless families from Bolivian slums on small farms and to reforest small parts of these small holdings. Bolivia is located to the west of Brazil with lowlands from 500 feet above sea level to high lands of 27,000 … Read more

This is basically a true storey based on the diaries of two Chesterfield lads called Clifford Lone and Jimmy Tate.  Jimmy was 15 years old when he lied about his age and signed up. James Clark donned the uniform of an army private of WW1 and demonstrated the basic equipment and weapons issued to a … Read more

This is a sequel to follow Reg’s talk entitled “Rat Catcher” that was given earlier in the year in which he spoke about the early days of chasing benefit fraudsters whilst in the Department of Employment. His subject involved heading a team that had expanded to eleven “chasers” and a typist covering South Yorkshire.  There … Read more

Peter Slater has been a sports reporter for 35 years and for much of that time he worked for BBC radio.  Born in Newcastle, he went to the University of Sheffield, where he started his reporting career as “V Boring” a regular contributor to a student magazine.  After graduation, he returned to Newcastle and in … Read more

By way of introduction Lee suggested that there were two frontiers of Physics – the very large (astrophysics) and the very small (particle physics).  Lee’s research is looking at matter in its smallest dimensions. He presumed that many of his audience had studied O level physics and reminded them of Thomson’s discovery of cathode rays … Read more

Tom is a solicitor in Belper as well as a very knowledgeable and obsessed devotee of Sir Winston Spencer Churchill.  He rates Sir Winston on a par with Albert Einstein as the most memorable “good” men of the twentieth century.  His talk was so far ranging and captivating that for this short report, I will … Read more