Glyn Davies

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

Mike’s extremely well-illustrated  talk was about skyscrapers – there are about 4,800 in the world! The idea of building tall buildings is not new – even in biblical times they thought up the Tower of Babel! In more modern times the tower of Lincoln Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower, the Chrysler Building and the Empire State … Read more

Kerry told us that she has been doing ‘magic’ for about 21 years. She started her talk by choosing assistants from our audience because she does ‘close-up magic’ and needs help when using Zoom. Kerry started with ‘card magic’. Kerry showed us a special pack of cards that were all jokers and asked if we … Read more