Directory of Previous Talks

Having visited the same country with my wife in February 2015, I could relate to Susan Rogers’s account of her journey to Vietnam 11 years earlier. The main differences were the direction of travel (in our case, from North to South) and more importantly the fact that, while we were on a package holiday, Susan … Read more

Keith Booker is the current treasurer for Dore PROBUS club. He retired relatively early in his career and he and his wife decided to see the world whilst they were still fit and able to do so. They have been on two world cruises and amassed a treasure trove of photographs in the process. Keith … Read more

Professor Peter Redgrave works at the Sheffield University and lectures in the Department of Psychology. He says that his research philosophy assumes that to diagnose and correct what has gone wrong in a complicated system like the brain, it is helpful to have a good understanding of its normal function. In his talk he explained what Parkinson’s disease is, … Read more

The title of the talk was the title of her first book in a diplomatic crime series, but her talk was about her life working for the Foreign Office as a Diplomat. Jean was brought up in Harrow, quite close to Heathrow Airport, and as a child she used to watch the planes circling, waiting … Read more

Alan, now retired from the HSBC, for whom he worked for 35 years, (having started with Midland Bank before they were taken over by HSBC), shared with us the period in his career when he was involved with the Midland Banks’ secret setting up of the first telephone Bank, ‘first direct’. The project began in … Read more

Suzanne took us on a journey depicting the history of leisure throughout the ages. In 1760  there were very few methods of transport for the public apart from stage coaches.  The coach from Sheffield to London would take three days ! People worked 6 days a week only having Sunday off which meant church for … Read more