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.
Anne is the curator of Social and Oral History at the National Coal Mining Museum at Caphouse Colliery which stopped production in 1985. Initially the site was known as the Yorkshire Mining Museum but in 1995 it became the National Coal Mining Museum for England. Anne’s talk was based on an exhibition held in 2006 … Read more
Alan was Editor of the Star and re-launched the Sheffield Telegraph in 1989. There is evidence of early forms of type in ancient China and possibly Korea but in Europe it is Johannes Gutenberg who is credited with ‘inventing’ type. He wanted to make reusable letters and produced 300 letter forms, including upper and lower case letters, … Read more
Bishops’ House is a Grade II listed, half-timbered house, in Norton Lees and located on the southern tip of Meersbrook Park. It is one of the oldest timber framed buildings in Sheffield and typical of a large farmhouse or small manor house from the 1500’s. Other surviving timber-framed houses in the city are Carbrook Hall/Inn … Read more
The title suggests that the talk would be about the autumn colours of the trees in New England. Not so! Bob Gellatly is a railway enthusiast and it was about a railway journey he took, with his wife to various parts of New England in the autumn of 2013 and the emphasis was on the … Read more
If you like mystery stories –dark nights, isolated houses, dodgy characters- and having your imagination tickled, this story had the lot. One of our members, Michael Rose, kept us spellbound as he outlined the plot set in 1889 in a time and place of which we knew little. On the 30th of January that fateful … Read more
As a newcomer to Probus and an even newer member of the panel of bloggers, it is coincidental – and fortuitous from my point of view – that the subject matter for my maiden contribution is something with which I was already familiar. The title of Ann Beedham’s very interesting talk is also the title … Read more