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.
David Williams, a retired engineer, is a narrow gauge enthusiast but apparently not a great fan of the standard gauge (4ft 8.5ins). He defined narrow gauge broadly as: Big, around 3 ft; Middle, around 2ft; Small, around 15-17ins and gauges below would be considered appropriate to model railways. Narrow gauge railways are with us because … Read more
Ian, a renowned local historian, who has appeared on TV & radio, told us the story of a multiple murder, in Mansfield, that occurred in the early hours of 11th August 1895. Henry Wright (H.W.) the lodger, had, allegedly, murdered his landlady, Mary Reynolds aged 48, her 2 children, Big William & Charles, aged 15 … Read more
(This blog will be short and condensed, as to refer to names mentioned in Paul’s talk, could be to the detriment of the club!) Paul gave us an interesting talk into “behind the scenes activities” in many local councils, and how the media has been involved in exposing malpractices. Some local councils work hard and … Read more
Our speaker, John Guest, described himself as a reformed bio-chemist, who has become a self-confessed genetic engineer. It is apparent that over the years we are living in an age of increasing specialisation; as a consequence, more of us seem to know more and more about less and less. He has been working on the … Read more
Dr Rod Amos, a retired consultant rheumatologist at the Royal Hallamshire and Sheffield Children’s Hospital who last spoke to us in January 2014 on Changing Concepts of Medicine (from Sorcery to Science), returned with a fascinating account of the almost total eradication of poliomyelitis. Specifically, his talk centred on the involvement in fundraising of Franklin … Read more
This was the first time that I had heard our own member Murray Wilson give a talk, and as I took my seat I wondered whether we would be learning about the long-running BBC children’s radio programme Listen With Mother (“Are you sitting comfortably? Then I’ll begin”), the 1969 single recorded by the Moody Blues … Read more