2023 marks the year of change for the monarchy. Just as every coronation has done for centuries. However, the titles of a queen or king doesn’t change, it is only the person that does. On 6 May 2023 King Charles...

I grew up and still live in East London, only a few miles from where used to be the Port of London Authority ‘Royal’ Docks – the largest enclosed dock area in the world. My grandfather was a boilermaker in...

I was thrilled to discover that Windsor & Eton are two such fantastic towns to visit that I was quite overwhelmed on my first journey there. There was so much to see, so much history and the scenery is absolutely...

Although the preservation and rallying of old cars and motorbikes was by then well established, it was not until the mid-1950s that the private preservation of buses and other commercial vehicles took off. A few vehicles had been retained by...

Funny Side of the Camera One of the most difficult things I’ve found over the years is capturing instant humour, and when it does happen you have to be quick and ready and that’s not always possible. So its not...

Living in East London, I passed through Stratford every day on my way to work. So naturally I knew about London’s bid to host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games and I saw and photographed the pre-publicity while the bid...

I became interested in buses and trolleybuses at an early age. In my teenage years I started visiting different parts of the country to see and photograph operators and vehicles. Great variety existed across the UK bus scene in 1962...

As a retired History and Politics lecturer at a local college I felt well able to take on the writing of this book. I was particularly familiar with almost all prime ministers post 1832 and had some knowledge of some...

When I retired from librarianship in 2017 I had two plans – to write a pair of books about local transport history that I had been planning but had not had time to fulfil, and to become a volunteer at...

True fame stands upon a plinth, toga-clad and wreathed in laurels. It is the reward for great deeds, leadership, or genius, securing homage and then immortality. Later generations reinterpret it, but this renews it without questioning its validity. Celebrities flare...