Probus Website – Speakers – July to December 2025
| Date | Speaker | Subject/Title | Overview | Lead |
| July | ||||
| 7 | Quentin Kopp | “The Many Lives of Georges Kopp, Orwell’s Commander in Spain” | Chairman of the Orwell Society, Quentin’s father Georges Kopp met his mother through having been George Orwell’s Commanding Officer in the Spanish Civil War. | rw/as |
| 21 | Alan Spears | “What Geology did for us in Sheffield” | Returning by popular request, our member Alan, retired Professor of Geology, will explain about the geology local to our area. | rw |
| Aug | ||||
| 4 | Robert Guttridge | “The many iterations in the building of the Hallamshire Hospital” | Robert, another of our members and an architect, will explain some of the challenges he encountered in the handing over of the new hospital. | rw |
| 18 | John Hopkins | “The Economic Miracle that is Singapore” | Quite by chance we have another of our members who offered to give us his talk about this Far East city. | rw |
| Sept | ||||
| 1 | Tim Renshaw | “The Archer Project: Life beyond homelessness” | Time is CEO of the Archer Project, based at the Cathedral, which does an amazing job supporting local homeless people. | rw |
| 15 | Colin Peskett | “A history of Peak Rail” | Colin, yet another of our members, is keen to relate the tale of our local restored steam railway and his own involvement. | rw |
| Oct | ||||
| 6 | Peter Morgan | “Who invented Stainless Steel?” | rw | |
| 20 | John Stocks | “Sheffield: the home of football” | An unmissable talk! John will present the results of some new research about the early years of the game in Sheffield. | rw/pj |
| Nov | ||||
| 3 | Annual Lunch | |||
| 17 | Graham Blincow | “The Radio Explosion” | Difficult to believe but this is our fifth member offering to talk to us since July! This one all about radio. | rw |
| Dec | ||||
| 1 | Keith Pitchforth | “From village to suburb” | The history of the development of Fulwood from the 1880s to 1930s. | rw |
| 15 | Neil Hanson | “The Ghostwriter” | Neil captivated us all last December with his story of his experiences of running the Tan Hill Inn. Now more from Neil in his role as a ghostwriter! | rw |