I can’t speak for any other cities but I wonder whether there exists within them quite the same passion that Glasgow citizens have for their transport systems; their trams, trolleybuses, paddle steamers, steam trains and one of the smallest underground...

For this blog I could just quote from my introduction of ‘Heritage Railways in The Midlands’, but that would be too easy and a bit of a cheat on my part. I need to sell the book on this post...

Having been given the go-ahead for the book after my initial submission of numerous photos I had in my portfolio, which had grown quickly from my retirement from full-time employment. But now the challenge and at first seemed daunting to...

Southdown in preservation was book number five I have written and published by Amberley Publishing. My first book published in 2019 was to recall my memories of coaches in Brighton, its success has allowed me to continue to capture a...

Maj-Gen John Le Marchant I grew up on the island of Guernsey, and like many boys back then, I was fascinated with everything military – soldiers, tanks, fighter jets. Our house was full of military models. So, when I started...

Celebrating Evesham? Sounds like an excellent idea; but then, as a local born-and-bred, I’m biased. Objectively, though, there are many aspects of this historic town which are worthy of celebration, both old and new, ancient and modern. Over the centuries...

Football is Britain’s national sport, and it is not surprising that it features a number of times in the forty-one chapters of my book Great Railway Journeys: The Flying Scotsman Route to Edinburgh. They include Hitchin, Newcastle upon Tyne and...

For many decades bus services within the borough of Northampton were provided by council-owned Northampton Transport with United Counties, part of the National Bus Company, operating routes to outlying towns and villages. The ‘town’ buses were red and the ‘country’...

This was my first major published book after recovering from bowel cancer surgery and acquiring a stoma for life. My struggle there coincided with Covid and lockdown. Amberley asked me to write the book when I provisionally proposed a different...

Flavour of Flight – Captain Al Bridger Becoming actively involved with the fabulous British Airways Speedbird Heritage Centre was a huge privilege for me. Not only working with the highly knowledgeable volunteers it also gave the opportunity to delve into...