Our next scheduled outside visit – a coach trip to Saltaire village and Salts Mill near Bradford on Wednesday, 18th September – has proved an instant hit. All but four of the 37 places on the coach were snapped up on the day bookings opened, and another couple will be making their own way by car.
Titus Salt, a Bradford councillor and subsequently MP, was a textile manufacturer in Bradford, with around eight different mills. When he lost his seat as a Liberal MP in 1850 he decided to build a mill large enough to consolidate his textile manufacture in one place and bought land three miles from the town in Shipley, next to the River Aire, the Leeds and Liverpool Canal and the Midland Railway.
Meanwhile, a party of 27 members and partners enjoyed a day out at historic Haddon Hall, near Bakewell, on Wednesday, 17th July (see under ‘Visits’ on the website).
We are fortunate in Stumperlowe Probus Club to have members who are leading experts in their professional fields, a good example being Professor David Gawkrodger, honorary professor of dermatology at Sheffield University, who spoke to us recently on caring for our skin. John Hopkins’s blog on Prof Gawkrodger’s talk is now published under Previous Talks.
Our own chairman, Dr Dick Birks, a retired consultant anaesthetist and a past president of the Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland, was our speaker on Monday, 15th July. Andrew Shorthouse’s blog is also published under Previous Talks.
Our speakers in September will include Prof Peter Ivey, an expert in IT and all things technical, who has already spoken to us this year on advances in Artificial Intelligence.
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Our speaker programme through to Dec 2024 is now loaded, click here to view.