Directory of Previous Talks

Jonathan Hunt is a retired solicitor in Sheffield with connections with the Sherwood Rangers and the SSAFA, the armed forces charity supporting veterans and their families. As a member of the Sheffield Club, he was trying to elicit information about the cavalry campaigns in Palestine in WW2 when he realised that it was ‘not on’ … Read more

With a billing as both a sculptor and a consultant surgeon specialising in head and neck cancer and reconstructive surgery, Nick Grew’s talk to us was eagerly awaited. We were informed that one and a half hours would be allocated to it, with a coffee break in the middle. Nick, who is Cancer and Clinical … Read more

Martin Gorman is the Chair of Friends of Sheffield Castle, which he says is really a pressure group trying to make the most of Sheffield Castle. The group consists of a Committee of 12 people and 200 members. Anyone can join for a fee of £5.The remains of Sheffield Castle were under Castle Market, between … Read more

Sue Turner is a volunteer at not only Whirlow Brook Park but also Friends of the Porter Valley and keen on the history of all of Sheffield’s parks. Sue explained that initially restoration of the rock garden at Whirlow Brook was started by a U3A group founded as recently as 2021 but The Friends of … Read more

Computers have changed most people’s lives beyond recognition over the last 30 or 40 years. The Tandy 200 laptop terminals I was using as a journalist in the 1980s had a built-in memory of roughly 20,000 bytes, sufficient to upload 3,000 words of text into a newspaper’s editorial system. There are one million bytes in … Read more

Alan, a retired consultant anaesthetist at Barnsley Hospital, gave us another great talk on how a group of his friends and colleagues (Fig 1) successfully tackled Mount Kilimanjaro. Ironically, the older you are, the more likely you are to succeed in reaching the summit. Between 30 and 75 per cent fail to reach it, depending … Read more