Graham Snowdon

A packed house at Fulwood Sports Club – it was almost standing room only – suggested that members were eagerly anticipating what turned out to be a spellbinding talk. Indeed, Martin Rowley’s graphic slideshow presentation came with a health warning for the more squeamish amongst us. Almost all large cities had their gang wars, especially … Read more

Computers have changed most people’s lives beyond recognition over the last 30 or 40 years. The Tandy 200 laptop terminals I was using as a journalist in the 1980s had a built-in memory of roughly 20,000 bytes, sufficient to upload 3,000 words of text into a newspaper’s editorial system. There are one million bytes in … Read more

The remit for anybody writing these blogs is not to report word-for-word what the speaker said, but to try and give a concise overview (perhaps 500 words at max) of what the talk was about, and how the presentation was received by our members. In the case of Sir Clive Jones, it is difficult to … Read more

American student Amanda Knox spent almost four years in an Italian prison following her wrongful conviction for the murder of fellow student Meredith Kercher. But was she really wrongly convicted? Stumperlowe Probus Club members made up a 32-strong jury which was asked to cast judgement after an enlightening hour-long examination of the facts by their … Read more

Our long-awaited return to face-to-face gatherings – after more than two years of virtual Zoom meetings forced upon us by the Covid emergency – provided us with an inspiring talk by retired anaesthetist Dr Alan Kershaw in our new surroundings of Fulwood Sports Club. Alan, 65, who spent 25 years as a consultant at Barnsley … Read more