The East Yorkshire town of Bridlington is one of those places where many people know by name due to the vast amount of holidaymakers that have made this their go-to place during the summer months, but few will know the...

It has been tremendous fun drawing these cartoons. Some may be familiar to you, having appeared in various local publications, among them The West Dorset Magazine, Dorset Life and The Dorset Year Book. The cartoons, interspersed with caricatures of notable...

The coach industry is indeed a fascinating one. Operations vary from family-run businesses of all sizes, big and small, to divisions of large bus companies or franchised units recognisable in the UK and even worldwide. Some come and go very...

A multi-award-winning, freelance photographer with four decades of experience working for PR and Event agencies, and the national and regional press. Paul’s photographs are regularly used worldwide. Paul was a staff photographer with the Bailey Newspaper Group based in Dursley...

Most people like bridges. Bridges are found everywhere around the world; mainly where a river needs to be crossed, or sometimes a railway, canal or road. They are also used to join an island to the mainland. They are a...

Chiswick is perhaps best known for two architectural marvels: the sumptuous Palladian villa of Chiswick House, and the pioneering Arts and Crafts model community of Bedford Park. Both, in very different times, added immensely to Chiswick’s appeal for the great...

The Importance of Culture Culture. What is it for you? Paintings or television? The National Gallery or Waterstones? There is of course no one answer, no agreement. But what is clear is that culture, however defined, plays a key role...

Sawmill Sketches French artist Henry Matisse once said that ‘drawing is putting a line round an idea’. Technically though, a drawing is usually far more detailed than a sketch and might well become the artist’s finished work – while a...

I am not an expert in anything, I wrote this book to help people like me who also are not experts but would like to find out about some parts of Plymouth which have always intrigued them. Hopefully I might...

Nowadays, the European coach market is dominated by a few manufacturers whose products are sold throughout the continent and beyond – think Mercedes-Benz, Iveco, Scania, Volvo etc. As well as European owned manufacturers, there is considerable input from China and...