We are currently holding meetings every first and third Monday of the month (except on Bank Holiday Mondays), with our guest speakers joining us at Fulwood Sports Club (10 for 10.30)
Probus Website – Speakers – July to December 2024
2024 | Speaker | Subject/Title | Lead |
July 2024 | |||
1 | Laura Alston | “Our Botanical Gardens – a year spent interpreting its many variations”. | rw |
15 | Dick Birks | “A lighter history of anaesthesia” | rw |
Aug 2024 | |||
5 | Peter Stubbs | “Triumph to Disaster: Germany 1814-1914″ | rw |
19 | Bill Skipworth | “Now I see” | me |
Sept 2024 | |||
2 | Gerry Meininger | “Anatomy of a Gunfight: The OK Corral” | ga |
16 | Peter Ivey | “Optical fibre: Skipping the light fandango” | ga |
Oct 2024 | |||
7 | Lavinia Jones | “Talking heads: portraiture through time” | rw/as |
21 | Chris Chapple | “Beekeeping” | ga |
Nov 2024 | |||
4 | Dame Pamela Shaw (plus Annual Lunch) | ” Neuroscience research at the University of Sheffield: past, present and future” | rw |
18 | Martin Cropper | “Harmony Works: an exciting new home for musical education and for the Sheffield Music Academy in the heart of the city” | rw |
Dec 2024 | |||
2 | John Parker | “Does glass offer a sustainable future?” | rw |
16 | Neil Hanson | “The Inn at the Top” | rw |
rw = Richard Worth
me = Mick Etches
ga = Graham Anthony
as = Andrew Shorthouse