John Abel

    The Medici Family Tree Professor Tim Stevenson has retired as the Clinical Director of Laboratory Medicine at Sheffield Teaching Hospital and is now a member of Stumperlowe Probus Club.  His talk was the first of a two-part examination of the early Medici family and was given using Zoom. The story starts with Giovanni … Read more

Gerry Meininger is an Emeritus Professor and Investigator at the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Centre at the University of Missouri – Columbia.  He is a very distinguished speaker who has had a large volume of work published and has lectured all over the world.  Now retired he lives in Sheffield. The goals of his presentation were … Read more

This talk has little to do with John Guest’s background in Biochemistry and much to do with the secret world of Bletchley Park during WW2.  He structured his talk as a journey of discovery beginning with his later school days in Belfast in 1952 where he was friends with Tony Banham. Around 1952-53 John was … Read more

Dr Tom Jenkins is a consultant neurologist and Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neurology at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield. He observed that the difference between heart and mind is that the heart is just a pump whereas everything comes from the brain.  The brain is the sphere of interest to the neurologist.  Tom gave … Read more

Chris Firth was born in Doncaster close to the banks of the River Don and early in life developed a passionate interest in the river.  In 1975 he took up a post as a Fisheries Bailiff working in the Lake District. In 1977 he moved to Beverley where he began work with the Yorkshire Water … Read more

 Sandra Welburn is based in Newcastle and is the Head of information coordination for the northern region of the “Action on hearing loss” charity.  Its former name was the Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID). It has been a national charity since 1911.  The area covered by Sandra is from Cheshire to the Scottish … Read more