Directory of Previous Talks

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

Gerry Meininger is an Emeritus Professor at the Dalton Cardiovascular Research Centre at the University of Missouri and gives lectures all over the world.  His talk on General George Armstrong Custer however is his first on a subject totally unconnected to his specialised medical knowledge.  Gerry is also a member of Stumperlowe Probus Club. The … Read more

Gerry Kersey was a broadcaster. He worked for Radio Hallam and Radio Sheffield for over 50 years. He retired when the Covid pandemic began in 2020. Now he paints pictures, many of them showing different departments in a steel works. Gerry’s father, William ‘Billy’ Kersey, was born in Suffolk and he worked there as a … Read more

Prof Marcotti, Professor of Sensory Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield, began his talk by showing how we hear by putting on screen a diagram of the ear. He explained that the cochlea shown in the diagram is a spiral-shaped bone structure found in the inner ear that contains the hearing organ. This organ plays … Read more

The remit for anybody writing these blogs is not to report word-for-word what the speaker said, but to try and give a concise overview (perhaps 500 words at max) of what the talk was about, and how the presentation was received by our members. In the case of Sir Clive Jones, it is difficult to … Read more

Jo Meredith’s talk was a real eye-opener for many Probus members who had never set foot in the Sheffield General Cemetery. Jo was a town planner and landscape architect in local government and subsequently ran her own bookshop in Gloucester before selling up and becoming a tour guide. She has been a volunteer at the … Read more