John Abel

Our speaker Mike Collins, making a return visit to Stumperlowe Probus, is an emeritus consultant at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and before retirement he worked in the Department of Medical Imaging at Northern General Hospital. Mike is now interested in history with a medical bias, and the subject of this talk was inspired … Read more

Peter Machan has written a number of books about Sheffield, its surroundings and its traditions. His talk is titled the same as his book published in 2021. A reason he finds the Loxley Valley curious is that it has no main roads running through it. It is now an agricultural economy with the River Loxley … Read more

The purpose of this talk was largely to enlighten we locals as to why Sheffield should be acknowledged as the home of Association Football. An early game played with a ball was being played in the Americas 3,000 years ago, and in China around 2,000 years ago. Even in this country a few hundred years … Read more

The subject of Ben’s previous talk to the Club was about moths, this talk was to inform us of the work of the Sheffield and Rotherham Wildlife Trust. The Trust dates from 1985 an is one of 46 such Trusts in the UK. It is a largely city-based Trust looking after 16 Nature Reserves, 13 … Read more

Martin Cropper has a passionate love of chamber music. He was brought up locally in a household full of professional musicians. His father founded the Lindsay String Quartet and his mother is the violin teacher Nina Martin. He was awarded a scholarship to study with Howard Davis at the Royal Academy of Music from 1995 … Read more

Chris Chapple, our own member, is an Honorary Professor of Sheffield University and is now making more time to pursue his hobbies. A consultant urologist, today Chris was wearing his other hat as a trustee of the Sheffield Beekeepers’ Association. Since the age of 13, he has been interested in beekeeping and his talk covered: … Read more