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.
The purpose of this talk was largely to enlighten we locals as to why Sheffield should be acknowledged as the home of Association Football. An early game played with a ball was being played in the Americas 3,000 years ago, and in China around 2,000 years ago. Even in this country a few hundred years … Read more
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
Our own secretary, Colin Peskett, entertained another near-capacity audience with a talk about the Peak Rail heritage railway in Derbyshire, where he is one of the many volunteers who provide essential back-up to a small full-time workforce. The original line from London to Rowsley was opened in 1849 for passenger and coal traffic, and the … Read more
The Archer Project is a Sheffield-based charity and has been offering support and help to the homeless of the city and its region for over 30 years. Tim Renshaw, the CEO of The Archer Project, gave an excellent, thought-provoking and, at times, disturbing insight into lives of the homeless and those sleeping rough on our … Read more
Drawing from the body of the membership once again, our talk today was all about the economic progress of Singapore. His daughter has lived there for over 27 years and no doubt, this along with his visits there sparked his interest. Coming from a financial background he viewed the island with a keen eye on … Read more
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