Illustrated guide to the 65 mile walk around England’s smallest county, with detailed walk instructions, features and annotated cafe stops along the way. Divided into ten, approximately 6 miles or 10Km sections, with suggested parking locations where appropriate. Walkers and runners alike will find a route to suit. The route is primarily farmland tracks and paths, with a few on-road sections, taking you through a varied and beautiful countryside; visiting quaint villages and bustling market towns. There is much to admire, landmark buildings, wide open countryside and Rutland Water, one of England’s largest reservoirs.
132 pages, 150 × 190mm full colour. Original photography with artistic maps, which should be used in conjunction with the relevant OS maps.
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For the past decade I have been researching, in the UK and in France, the crew of a 617 Squadron Lancaster Bomber, which left RAF Woodhall Spa in Lincolnshire on 24 June 1944 to bomb the V2 rocket site at Wizernes. The aircraft was hit by flak and came down over the target. Five men died; three survived, having been aided by a French resistance worker on the ground.
Throughout that time, I have been tracking down relatives of the crew. In November 2025 I published a book about the incident (with Gaetan Sagot; The Lost Dambuster Lancaster from Pen & Sword). It was decided to get as many relatives of the crew as possible to come to Woodhall Spa in May 2026, to visit the Lincolnshire sites associated with Bomber Command and 617 Squadron. Thirteen relatives attended the Weekend. Local aviation historians and the relatives themselves brought new stories and artifacts to the session. The new evidence about the crew has been compiled, on behalf of the relatives, into this volume.
This kind of collaboration, along with the sustained research and the involvement of relatives in actively augmenting the story, makes this work extremely unusual and a blueprint for this kind of historical investigation.
A sports photography special edition.
Insightful approach to sports photography. Whether you are just starting out, looking to improve, or just interested in having an idea about a working professional approaches a range of sports, you’ll find something that will enlighten you in this special edition. Born out of thirty years sitting on the sidelines from the school sports field to major international sports events, it covers everything. 32 page magazine.
Seascape imagery taken along the English Channel coast at Folkestone Warren using a Le Rouge 66 pinhole camera. Once a Victorian playground, Folkestone Warren has been forgotten, after losing its rail halt in the early 20th Century, it has slowly declined, with the emphasis moving to the town’s Sunny Sands beach near the harbour. Now the sea is reclaiming the foreshore, the groynes are of little use against the ravages of the tide. Moody black and white imagery to inspire! 28 page A5 exhibition catalogue.
THE BIRDING BIOGRAPHY OF THE REVD FRANCIS LINLEY BLATHWAYT
This is the story of one of those stalwarts of England from the Victorian & Edwardian eras, the parson naturalist.
Francis Blathwayt was a child of the Raj, whose mother tragically died when he was only three. Sent to England to live with an aunt, he passed through private school and Oxford, and was ordained into the Church of England in Lincoln.
He held a curacy in Monks Road, Lincoln, during the typhoid epidemic. From 1909-1916 he was Rector at St Peter’s church, Doddington. Later, he would move to the south-west, though he sustained his natural history links with Lincolnshire and with the Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union.
Francis belonged to the family who owned Dyrham Park in Gloucestershire. He had (in his own view) the misfortune to inherit it. He passed it on to his cousin with the proviso that he could be Rector of the church there. In 2005, elderly locals could remember him, cycling out in his dog-collar as evening fell to listen to nightingales. His birding was pioneering; he belonged to the generation that replaced the gun with binoculars.
Francis’ uncle, Colonel Linley Blathwayt, another wildlife enthusiast, opened his house to the Suffragette Movement – a courageous act at the time.
Francis was a very proper clergyman, who loved birds and his flock in equal measure. There is even extant correspondence with the bishop of Lincoln about the ethics of whether or not curates should dance at society events!
Though compiled in 2005, the information in this volume remains entirely accurate. As well as the Raj years, it documents Francis’ twenty-two volumes of bird notes, his multiple papers and mentions in bird literature, and his adventures (like towing a tiny a caravan on the back of an early, possibly Morris, car so the family could watch rare Red Kites in Wales). His address as President of the LNU remains seminal in its approach.
He died, a country parson, in 1953, still raising money for his beloved parish church.
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