Directory of Previous Talks

A fascinating talk by one of our members ably assisted by his wife Gill on whom Roy demonstrated blood-letting, scarifying and extractions with a fearsome range of old instruments and bowls to collect the blood.  For those readers who are of a nervous disposition and dislike dentists, please be assured no harm was done to … Read more

Brains began evolving millions of years ago. All vertebrates (fish, frog, bird, monkey, man) have brains of the same design but in different species the brain’s size and sophistication depends on the characteristic that is most important to the species. In humans it is thinking, in dogs smell, in dolphins sonar, in bats radar. Why … Read more

Stephen is an ex- third generation employee of Stanton Iron Works near Ilkeston, Derbyshire. He had come into the possession of some unique records of the works, including a film taken on the site, during WW2, of the whole process of making steel bomb casings for bombs of 1600lbs down to 250lbs. The Stanton Iron … Read more

I had a good idea once.  I thought of a “spring-like trellis device” that would keep a refuse sack open wide enough to put garden rubbish in it. I found out later on looking on the web that other similar things had been invented After listening to today’s talk – glad that I didn’t start … Read more

By the title you would be forgiven for thinking, what an odd combination and where is the link? Well we had two talks by two of our members, the first one being about seamless ring rolling by Andrew (Drew) Inglis from a sales directors point of view. Drew was Sales Director at Woodhouse & Rixson, … Read more

We were very fortunate today to have John Mothersole, Chief Executive of the Sheffield Council, to speak to us on this topic.This phrase has been bandied about for months now and we have asked ourselves whether it is just one of those political phrases used by politicians to pacify the electorate in the North of … Read more