Glyn Davies

Dave, who was making his fifth visit to Stumperlowe Pobus Club, is the resident comedian/musician/magician at Warwick Castle. As an introduction to his magic act he held up a straw. He pushed it into the side of his head then magically pulled it out of his mouth. He then played his guitar and sang a … Read more

Prof Channer, a consultant cardiologist, explained that he undertook some medico-legal work for colleagues when he was based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, and his talk was based on a true story. He presented the case to our audience, who would then be the jury. It involved an under-19 football team, connected to a league … Read more

Martin Gorman is the Chair of Friends of Sheffield Castle, which he says is really a pressure group trying to make the most of Sheffield Castle. The group consists of a Committee of 12 people and 200 members. Anyone can join for a fee of £5.The remains of Sheffield Castle were under Castle Market, between … Read more

Gerry Kersey was a broadcaster. He worked for Radio Hallam and Radio Sheffield for over 50 years. He retired when the Covid pandemic began in 2020. Now he paints pictures, many of them showing different departments in a steel works. Gerry’s father, William ‘Billy’ Kersey, was born in Suffolk and he worked there as a … Read more

John is a retired academic and former history teacher and headteacher in Sheffield, but was raised in Manchester.  His interest in the Peterloo Massacre is because he knows the place where it happened. In Saxon times each village had three fields for the villagers to grow food crops.  One field was for Spring use, one … Read more

Peter Brown was a secondary school teacher. He stopped teaching in 2004. As a child ‘I-Spy’ books introduced him to information about birds and then ‘The Observer Book of Birds’ extended his knowledge.  In 1959 his father, who was a policeman, was asked by a neighbour to deal with a ‘parrot’ that he had seen … Read more