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.
Dr Patrick Harding soon established himself with the audience as a fun guy, but although fungi were certainly on the menu this was a pot pourri of tales about the hidden qualities of all sorts (and Allsorts) of everyday plants. And they were tales, rather than tedious botanical descriptions. Green fingered I most certainly am … Read more
As a Senior Coroner, our speaker this week, Christopher Dorries, was well qualified to examine the trial of Dr Crippen. In a fascinating presentation we were invited, like a jury, to consider the evidence for a case that for over one hundred years had become more legend than fact. Henry Harvey Crippen was born in … Read more
Graham Snowdon is a retired journalist, our Secretary and an author in our blog team who has definitely raised the bar in the quality of our reporting. His talk was an account of his paternal grandmother’s family, which he has traced back to Christopher Husband, his four times great grandfather, born in Scarborough about 1734. … Read more
Mike told us that, in the past, a few separate rivers were joined by canals to form a huge connected waterways system. This was a strictly commercial enterprise aimed at transporting freight to fuel the Industrial Revolution. The canals now fit seamlessly in to the landscape and are mainly used for our leisure enjoyment. Mike … Read more
Paul Leonard was a Major Crime Investigator with the South Yorkshire Serious Crime Unit having worked his way up the Force from joining at the age of 18 to his retirement. His gripping talk centred on the events in 2009 relating to the Sheffield based doctor Colin Shawcross and Andrew Peter Hill of Woodall. Colin … Read more
John gave us a stimulating talk on this important group of birds which can be seen around our cliffs, estuaries,, mudflats and sea shores. Some such as Storm-petrels, Shearwaters and Gannets spend much of their lives at sea , visiting land just to breed, often in huge, noisy colonies. Others particularly the Gulls are more … Read more