Tim Marsh How do you write a blog on a magician? Well. Here goes. This was Dave’s third end of year talk to us in succession, (which speaks for itself), putting us well and truly in the holiday mood, with another, and different, entertaining performance of magic, comedy and music. As a Jeremy Corbyn look-alike, he started … Read more
Tim is a volunteer local archivist for ‘’Peak in the Past’’ which is a community heritage group comprising a small collective of individuals with a shared passion for the Derbyshire Peak District and its past. Teaming up with his High Peak Journalist sister Holly, Tim has, from humble beginnings in 2014, obtained financial support to … Read more
Howard, a regular speaker at our Probus, explained that today’s’ illustrated talk was aimed at encouraging us to observe and understand the remaining visible signs of Sheffield’s past, some of which we don’t normally notice or appreciate. These ranged from pre-Roman and Anglo Saxon times to the Viking and Norman influence, through to times when … Read more
David, a regular speaker at our Probus, is an Elizabethan Historian, a nationally known speaker and Chair of The Friends of Sheffield Manor Lodge. He became a guide at Manor Lodge in 2004, at which time he could find only a single chapter to read about Mary Queen of Scots and her 19 years of … Read more
John, originally from Canterbury, trained in Bradford, came to Sheffield to work in the Northern General, and since 1998, has been self-employed, as the Clinical Director of ‘Sheffield Physiotherapy’ on Ecclesall Rd. Acupuncture is also carried out at the practice. Johns description of the aches and pains which he routinely treats, resonated with the members. … Read more
Mike Gildersleeve, a regular visitor to our Probus, was brought up in Wembley in the 1950s, in a house with no Mod. Cons., but, they had a ‘wireless’, then a Radiogram (initially wind-up gramophone) and also they were within easy access of 24 cinemas, all now closed. In 1950 there were only 300,000 TVs in … Read more