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 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
Emeritus Professor Alan Spears is a member of Stumperlowe Probus Club. His previous talk to the Club was entitled Geology and Sorby in Sheffield. His present talk is designed for the layman. The presentation introduces the historical significance of geology in Sheffield, outlining key topics such as landscape, iron-ore, coal, refractory clays, and building materials … Read more
Just less than two years on from our visit by Richad Blair, better known as George Orwell’s son, we were privileged to have as our guest speaker Quentin Kopp, a trustee of the Orwell Society, whose own father Georges was Orwell’s commander in the Spanish Civil War.If we were talking musically, this contribution could well … Read more
As has been said many times before, we Stumperlowe Probus members are blessed by having the wonderful countryside of the Peak District on our doorstep. And, even by Peak standards, the River Wye specifically is a hidden gem, as our speaker Don Stazicker pointed out. Don knows the Wye – not to be confused with … Read more