New & In Progress
What's New?
- July 2026: New section 'Shipping Snippets' - miscellaneous articles about ships and shipping.
- June 2026: New section 'The Whole Hog' - the history of Hog Island including the shipyard.
- March 2026: New section 'All My Own Work' - an account of my working life - initially from 1965 to 1986, but with more to follow.
- December 2025: New section 'The Imperial Durbars and Indian Independence'.
- August 2025: New section 'The Dempster Collection' - A collection of ship photos from the 1960s taken in the Ayr and Troon area.
- April 2025: New section 'Showmen' - The largely-forgotten men who created exhibition sites and amusement parks in the Victorian and Edwardian eras
- April 2025: New section 'White City' - the history of Britain's Greatest Lost Exhibition Site
- November 2024: New section 'TheShipsList' - Shipping fleet information recovered from a defunct website
- November 2024: New section 'Funnels and Flags' - the livery of British and Irish merchant shipping companies
- October 2024: New section 'A Pebble in the Ocean' - the history of SS Manipur/HMS Sandhurst by Michael Antliff Wood
- August 2024: Website front-end replaced with cleaner version
- March 2024: New section 'Hugh Dempster's Postcard collection'
- November 2023: New section 'The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago'
- May 2023: New section 'Power to the People' - building the National Grid in the 1920s and 1930s
- February 2022: New section of postcards sent home from trips to Australia by my grandfather just before WW1
- October 2021: New section with biographies of Vera Milligen and 'Tex' McLeod
- March 2021: Updated front-end and improved contact form
- March 2021: New section about Blackpool Trams in the 1980s
- November 2020: New section about P & O 'M Class' Passenger liners
- October 2020: New section about the John Milligen collection of veteran cars, tractors, engines etc.
- September 2020:New section about the Edwardian steam yacht Stephanotis (later named Wendorian) and her owners
- August 2020: New section about a return trip to India in 1914
- July 2020: New section about ships owned by John Milligen & Co.
What's Next?
The following projects are all proceeding at different paces. The order of publication is not fixed but those nearer the top of the list are likely to be delivered earlier than the others.
- History of the Earl's Court Exhibition Centre
- Forgotten Thames Crossings
- History of Wild West shows
- London power stations
- History of cables and electrical generation
- 'Who Does He Think He Is?' - the life stories of my ancestors
- Disposal of munitions in the sea after WW1 and WW2
- War Diaries of a WW1 Battalion of the Royal Garrison Artillery in which my grandfather served
- My grandfather's collection of postcards from WW1
- History of household appliances