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.
We are very fortunate in Stumperlowe Probus in having members drawn from many different walks of business and professional life with years of experience gained in their chosen areas of expertise. One such member, Rob Coleman, joined the club just over a year ago following his retirement from an extremely successful career in medicine as … Read more
We were privileged to share, at first hand, Richard Blair’s (pictured left) many recollections of life with his father Eric Arthur Blair, otherwise known as George Orwell (1903-1950), best known for his allegorical novella Animal Farm (1945), the dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), and his non-fictional work including The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) and … Read more
Paul Adey is a retired company director with over 60 years in the motor trade and with a range of talks in addition to the motor industry. His talk started in Paris in 1769 with Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot’s experiments with steam-engine powered vehicles for the French Army. It had three wooden wheels and no brake. With … Read more
John Smith was an eminent pathologist before his retirement – a consultant gynaecological histopathologist and cytopathologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – but has had a lifelong interest in naval warfare. Probably to the relief of most of those present, he chose the latter as his subject when he agreed to come and … Read more
Prof Channer, a consultant cardiologist, explained that he undertook some medico-legal work for colleagues when he was based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, and his talk was based on a true story. He presented the case to our audience, who would then be the jury. It involved an under-19 football team, connected to a league … Read more
Geoff Gill, Emeritus Professor of International Medicine at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine and Liverpool University, and a retired NHS Consultant Physician, gave us an illuminating talk on the privations and diseases experienced by Allied prisoners of war during the building of the Burma railway. He gave an often harrowing account of the suffering experienced … Read more