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.
A wide subject you would think, but Patrick Harding did more than justice to it. Oak trees seem to be as familiar in Great Britain to the Ancient Britons as they are to us today. A local giant oak is situated in Worsborough, which is about 1,120 years old. Estimates suggest that oaks have grown … Read more
It is probably a record for this Club that a speaker should be giving his 17th talk. Stephen Gay has been giving talks to our Club for about twenty years and has not exhausted his list yet. Perhaps most Probus Clubs contain a cadre of railway enthusiasts, our Club certainly has its group who obviously … Read more
The Lieutenancy is headed by the Lord-Lieutenant. One of his or her roles is to vet anyone who has been nominated for the Honours List. South Yorkshire is very under-represented on the Honours List compared with the London area. The Honours System originated in Tudor times and the Lord-Lieutenant is the Sovereign’s representative in the … Read more
Lord Byron was the greatest romantic poet of all time. Born George Byron on 22nd January 1788, he became Lord Byron, the sixth Baron Byron, at the age of ten in 1798 when he inherited the title from his great uncle, William Byron of Newstead Abbey. He was a complex character who led an unconventional … Read more
Tim Hollis, resident of this parish, is a man of many parts and could have spoken to us on many subjects. He could have told us about his teenage experiences with Voluntary Service Overseas in Ghana before attending Bristol University, or about his early career in the army as an officer in the Parachute Regiment. … Read more
Christopher Dorries, the Senior Coroner for Sheffield and Barnsley, was on his second visit to us. This time, he delivered a talk on the so-called ‘Porthole Murder,’ when a 21-year old girl called Gay Gibson (her stage name) disappeared from the MV Durban Castle, a 17,000-ton cruise ship, in 1947, in shark infested waters 90 … Read more