Directory of Previous Talks

Gerry Kersey was a broadcaster. He worked for Radio Hallam and Radio Sheffield for over 50 years. He retired when the Covid pandemic began in 2020. Now he paints pictures, many of them showing different departments in a steel works. Gerry’s father, William ‘Billy’ Kersey, was born in Suffolk and he worked there as a … Read more

Prof Marcotti, Professor of Sensory Neuroscience at the University of Sheffield, began his talk by showing how we hear by putting on screen a diagram of the ear. He explained that the cochlea shown in the diagram is a spiral-shaped bone structure found in the inner ear that contains the hearing organ. This organ plays … Read more

The remit for anybody writing these blogs is not to report word-for-word what the speaker said, but to try and give a concise overview (perhaps 500 words at max) of what the talk was about, and how the presentation was received by our members. In the case of Sir Clive Jones, it is difficult to … Read more

Jo Meredith’s talk was a real eye-opener for many Probus members who had never set foot in the Sheffield General Cemetery. Jo was a town planner and landscape architect in local government and subsequently ran her own bookshop in Gloucester before selling up and becoming a tour guide. She has been a volunteer at the … Read more

Tom Smith specialised in foot and ankle surgery and retired in 2005 as a Consultant at Claremont Hospital in Sheffield but continued to lecture until recently.  He was quick to explain that his interest in the Surrealism Movement has very little to do with his professional life.  Before the First World War there was a … Read more

John is a retired academic and former history teacher and headteacher in Sheffield, but was raised in Manchester.  His interest in the Peterloo Massacre is because he knows the place where it happened. In Saxon times each village had three fields for the villagers to grow food crops.  One field was for Spring use, one … Read more