Graham Snowdon If Harry Brearley made the production of stainless steel possible, it was Robert Mosley who was the visionary, innovator and entrepreneur who brought Sheffield stainless steel cutlery to the mass market. Anna de Lange’s presentation of Robert Fead Mosley’s life and career provided us with an interesting sequel to Andrew Messer’s talk eight weeks earlier … Read more
Today, it seems inconceivable that Sheffield’s beloved Lyceum Theatre could ever have been considered for demolition. But such a drastic move was very much on the cards when the theatre fell into disrepair in the early 1980s as it struggled against the rising tide of television and other forms of entertainment. It could have become … Read more
Richard’s talk was anything but a load of rubbish, but that was his chosen title for a presentation which showed us the state of play in the match between the environment and the ever rising tide of household waste. Eur Ing (European Engineer) Richard Groome, BSc Hons, C Eng, FI Chem E, graduated from Nottingham … Read more
In the overall story of the vast Newton Chambers empire, to mention only the firm’s Izal products would just be scratching the surface – which the company’s toilet paper did, literally. But to get to the bottom of local historian Joan Jones’s fascinating presentation about the history of the Chapeltown conglomerate, the main focus was … Read more
Dr Patrick Harding soon established himself with the audience as a fun guy, but although fungi were certainly on the menu this was a pot pourri of tales about the hidden qualities of all sorts (and Allsorts) of everyday plants. And they were tales, rather than tedious botanical descriptions. Green fingered I most certainly am … Read more
Dr Helen Hoyle gained her first degree, in geography, at Oxford University three decades ago, eventually becoming head of geography at schools in London and Hertfordshire, but a career change brought her to our fair city where she gained an MA (Distinction) in Landscape Architecture at the University of Sheffield between 2009 and 2011. “This … Read more