Andrew Shorthouse Nick Verber is a research registrar working for his PhD at the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience Institute (SITraN), University of Sheffield. He gave an excellent talk, very successfully overcoming the temptation of many medics to litter their lectures with clinical jargon. It was clearly delivered and easily followed by a large Zoom gathering of … Read more
Peter Ivey gave a succinct overview to a Zoom record of 45 members on how the internet works, and a very useful talk as most like me were fairly clueless; bits, bytes, HTML, 5G are familiar words bandied around but never quite sure exactly what they all mean. Peter’s background includes a physics degree at … Read more
Dave Petley gave a superb talk to 41 members, guests, and an unknown number of wives and girlfriends. It was the second highly successful Probus Zoom presentation since COVID-19 lockdown (thanks to Peter, Graham, Richard and Jacko). Dave is Vice President for Research and Innovation, University of Sheffield. His research focus is international landslide mechanisms and he … Read more
Stephen Gay by Sheffield’s Great Central Railway war memorial is a series of panels within a wooden frame – upon the panels are the names of those who fell in World War I. It is on display outside the Crowne Plaza Victoria Hotel – the original hotel to the Victoria Station. This wonderful talk about … Read more
John Laurie said, and it was said again by Peter Jackson at our meeting, “We’re doomed, we’re all doomed!” Here in Sheffield it’s really scary with a prediction that Millhouses Park, as well as East Anglia, Lincolnshire, northern Germany, the Low Countries and many other low lying lands around the world will be part of … Read more
Martin Thomas is a retired vascular and thyroid surgeon, keen sailor and a very old friend. He came all the way to Sheffield from where he lives in Bosham, Sussex, especially to deliver this talk. He was a commodore of the Ocean Cruising Club. He has sailed to the Antarctic twice and then seven years … Read more