Graham Snowdon This was John Taylor’s fourth visit to Stumperlowe Probus Club, but this time it felt more as though we were the visitors and he was leading us on a fascinating day out, virtually in our own backyard. It’s amazing what undiscovered treasures there are on one’s own doorstep, and John’s talk took us on a … Read more
Keith Booker, making his fourth visit to Stumperlowe, brought with him greetings from his home club of Dore, and explained that his latest selection of photographs from around the world was put together by request after he gave us Part One just over two years ago. “I’ve gathered together a new selection of pictures taken … Read more
A small but select group of Stumperlowe Probus Club members enjoyed an inspirational and at times emotional visit to the former RAF Elvington air base near York which now houses the Yorkshire Air Museum or, to give it its full name, the Allied Air Forces Memorial and Yorkshire Air Museum, on Wednesday, September 13. Our select … Read more
Dr Rod Amos, a retired consultant rheumatologist at the Royal Hallamshire and Sheffield Children’s Hospital who last spoke to us in January 2014 on Changing Concepts of Medicine (from Sorcery to Science), returned with a fascinating account of the almost total eradication of poliomyelitis. Specifically, his talk centred on the involvement in fundraising of Franklin … Read more
This was the first time that I had heard our own member Murray Wilson give a talk, and as I took my seat I wondered whether we would be learning about the long-running BBC children’s radio programme Listen With Mother (“Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin”), the 1969 single recorded by the Moody Blues … Read more
Much of Sheffield’s part in winning the First World War, such as the manufacture of armaments and the sacrifices made by the city’s own soldiers on the front line, has been well documented. Less well known, perhaps, is the huge contribution made during the conflict by the city’s numerous hospitals in treating no fewer than … Read more