John Abel John Holt is the High Sheriff of South Yorkshire. This is a high and very ancient office in the service of the Crown. His talk gave some of the history of the office and his personal experiences during his year so far as High Sheriff. John displayed an illustration of the High Sheriff of Bristol … Read more
We enjoyed a most successful outing to Bletchley Park where the Nazi and Japanese ciphers were broken during World War II. Visiting coaches must park off site. Setting down and pick up times have to be booked weeks in advance. Our drop off time was 11am requiring a 7.30 am departure from Sheffield but as the … Read more
Dr Roderick Gross is a senior lecturer in robotics at the University of Sheffield. His Department is researching the use of small, moving robots. It has the second largest “swarm” of robots in the world. There is great interest in the behaviour of swarms of creatures that individually have limited intelligence. When you consider the … Read more
Chris Turk has invested in the Sheffield based Cochabamba Project . It provides an opportunity to support homeless families from Bolivian slums on small farms and to reforest small parts of these small holdings. Bolivia is located to the west of Brazil with lowlands from 500 feet above sea level to high lands of 27,000 … Read more
This is basically a true storey based on the diaries of two Chesterfield lads called Clifford Lone and Jimmy Tate. Jimmy was 15 years old when he lied about his age and signed up. James Clark donned the uniform of an army private of WW1 and demonstrated the basic equipment and weapons issued to a … Read more
This is a sequel to follow Reg’s talk entitled “Rat Catcher” that was given earlier in the year in which he spoke about the early days of chasing benefit fraudsters whilst in the Department of Employment. His subject involved heading a team that had expanded to eleven “chasers” and a typist covering South Yorkshire. There … Read more