Here is a list of all our all our previous talks – Over 400 in total!! You can use the Search function for key words (magnifying glass in our menu).
Thank you to all the Speakers we have had over the years.
Do you know your Fino from your Manzanilla? Or your Amontillado from your Oloroso? If you were among the 40 Stumperlowe Probus Club members and guests who enjoyed fellow member David Westaway’s comprehensive masterclass – not to mention the delicious Spanish-style tapas that accompanied the tastings – then you will almost certainly now know the … Read more
The incredibly humorous pre-Christmas account of life at the Tan Hill Inn by its erstwhile landlord – writer, broadcaster and journalist Neil Hanson – kept us all in fits of laughter, with his quick-fire anecdotes, one after the other. This was after Dick Birks, Chairman, had presented our retiring club secretary, Graham Snowdon, with a … Read more
Emeritus Professor John Parker, a world renowned academic specialist in the world of glass, gave us a look into the sustainability of glass both as a product and in the course of its manufacture. Prof Parker is the curator of the Turner Museum of Glass at the University of Sheffield. Professor William E S Turner … Read more
We were honoured to have Professor Dame Pamela Shaw, one of the world’s leading researchers into Motor Neurone Disease, as our pre-lunch speaker and guest of honour at our annual luncheon at the Mercure Kenwood Hall Hotel. The full title of Dame Pamela’s presentation was “Neuroscience Research at the University of Sheffield: Past, present and … 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