Directory of Previous Talks

The title of the talk did not give much away regarding the content of the talk; in fact it was quite misleading because we thought we were going to be given a lecture on the history of the camel. How wrong we were. The title of the talk is in actual fact the title of … Read more

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