Graham Snowdon After his visit to us a year ago, Neil Hanson was best known to us as a former owner and proprietor of Britain’s highest pub, the Tan Hill Inn. He kept us laughing on that occasion with his story (Inn and Out at the Top, as he called it) of tight-fisted farmers, eccentric characters, bizarre … Read more
Our own member Graham Blincow gave us a fascinating insight into the world of radio – from Guglielmo Marconi’s patent of 1896 to the present time – but it was the period of Graham’s own involvement and the introduction of local radio in the 1960s and 1970s which prompted the talk’s title. BBC Radio Sheffield … Read more
The 850-bed Royal Hallamshire Hospital, opened by the then Prince of Wales in 1978, has become a Sheffield landmark with its central 18-storey concrete structure which is the city’s third highest building after St Paul’s Tower and the University Arts Tower. It is a facility of which the people of Sheffield are rightly proud, but … Read more
Just less than two years on from our visit by Richad Blair, better known as George Orwell’s son, we were privileged to have as our guest speaker Quentin Kopp, a trustee of the Orwell Society, whose own father Georges was Orwell’s commander in the Spanish Civil War.If we were talking musically, this contribution could well … Read more
As has been said many times before, we Stumperlowe Probus members are blessed by having the wonderful countryside of the Peak District on our doorstep. And, even by Peak standards, the River Wye specifically is a hidden gem, as our speaker Don Stazicker pointed out. Don knows the Wye – not to be confused with … Read more
Most people will associate volcanoes with Iceland, with memories of grounded aeroplane flights still fresh in their minds, and I for one must confess that I didn’t know that Chile also has several active volcanoes. Dave McGarvie, an honorary research fellow at Lancaster University, is an expert of volcanology (or vulcanology – it can be … Read more