6th Oct 2025 – Who Invented Stainless Steel? – Dr Peter Morgan

This week we were given an illuminating and informative talk around the question of “Who Invented Stainless Steel”? This is often claimed to have been Sheffield’s own metallurgist Harry Brearley. However the story as outlined in Peter’s talk gave a wider view of developments across a number of years within the broader steel industry, prior … Read more

4th August 2025 – Royal Hallamshire Hospital – Robert Guttridge

The 850-bed Royal Hallamshire Hospital, opened by the then Prince of Wales in 1978, has become a Sheffield landmark with its central 18-storey concrete structure which is the city’s third highest building after St Paul’s Tower and the University Arts Tower. It is a facility of which the people of Sheffield are rightly proud, but … Read more