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.
Ian Fleming – writer Sean Connery as James Bond Like many members, I’ve enjoyed matters James Bond for much of my life: boyhood queueing outside my local ODEON to see ‘Dr No’ in the early ‘sixties to 007 accompanying Her Majesty on her helicopter ride, sans corgis, to the 2012 London Olympics. Two iconic … Read more
Returning for the fourth time, Dave Moylan once again kept the assembled members of Stumperlowe Probus entertained and amused with his variety act of songs, magic and humour, old jokes and new. Dave gave an introduction to his long life in the entertainment industry predominantly as a drummer supporting many well known acts and comedians … Read more
This talk has little to do with John Guest’s background in Biochemistry and much to do with the secret world of Bletchley Park during WW2. He structured his talk as a journey of discovery beginning with his later school days in Belfast in 1952 where he was friends with Tony Banham. Around 1952-53 John was … Read more
These are troubled times for printed newspapers, all of whom are haemorrhaging circulation in the face of competition from the internet, and social media in particular. Many are in their death throes. For somebody who spent his entire working life in journalism, the figures make depressing reading. When I started work on the Yorkshire Evening … Read more
John Laurie said, and it was said again by Peter Jackson at our meeting, “We’re doomed, we’re all doomed!” Here in Sheffield it’s really scary with a prediction that Millhouses Park, as well as East Anglia, Lincolnshire, northern Germany, the Low Countries and many other low lying lands around the world will be part of … Read more
Charlie Peace was Sheffield’s most notorious Victorian murderer who was born in grim surroundings at Angel Court, Nursery St., Sheffield, in 1832. This is now the site of ‘The Big Gun’ pub. His father, John, was a cobbler, picture framer, and subsequently travelled with the Wombwell Menagerie as a one legged lion tamer. Charlie started … Read more