Welcome
I have been building this website since 2007 and regularly add new material documenting my research.
Access sections of the website via the menu or click on one of the images further down the page. The menu also provides access to overviews of the content.
You are also welcome to contact me via the feedback page to make comments to be added to the visitors book, report errors or ask questions. I will be pleased to hear from you.
Here's me pretending to aim a quadruple 40mm Bofors gun on USS Cassin Young at Boston Massachusetts; sadly they wouldn't let me fire it.
Brian Watson
5 March 2021
What's New?
- July 2020: New section about ships owned by John Milligen & Co.
- August 2020: New section about a return trip to India in 1914
- September 2020: New section about the Edwardian steam yacht Stephanotis (later Wendorian)
- October 2020: New section about the John Milligen collection of veteran cars, tractors, engines etc.
- November 2020: New section about P&O 'M Class' Passenger liners
- March 2021: New section about Blackpool Trams in the 1980s
- March 2021: Updated front-end and improved contact form
What's Next?
The following projects are under way:
- Biography of Vera Milligen
- History of Wild West shows
- Forgotten Thames Crossings
- Power to the People (History of electricity in London)
- The 1911 Delhi Durbar
- Hog Island - the world's largest and forgotten shipyard