Graham Snowdon We had a morning of self-awareness at Stumperlowe Probus Club when our own member Trevor Kelly gave the above titled talk. In much the same way that a leopard does not change its spots, a personality trait usually stays with you for life. It is largely inherited via your DNA from the family gene pool, … Read more
How have plants supported the health of mankind through millennia? How have they been discovered to have medicinal properties of some sort? How did this develop, and what does the future hold? These are just a few of the fascinating facts that Dr Jenny Stephenson explained. She also pointed out that the talk was not … Read more
Local historian Peter Machan, well known to Stumperlowe Probus Club members, brought along the three-part book he has written, entitled The Little Mesters – The Rise, Decline and Survival of Sheffield’s Traditional Trades. Ominously, some may say, the title of his latest presentation to us (above) was suffixed with a question mark, because the next … Read more
Sheffield’s worldwide reputation as an industrial powerhouse might have declined in recent decades. But the city’s industrial heritage goes from strength to strength thanks to the phenomenal success of the Hawley Tool Collection at the equally famous Kelham Island Museum. At the latest count, what is described as the best tool collection in the world … Read more
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