Welcome to the Island Publishing Home Page

Last updated 8th February 2012

The proprietor (John New) is a photographer and author with several published non-fiction and fiction stories and articles to his name.  In November 2008 he was finally able to exchange the wage-slave rat race to working as a full-time Researcher/ Historian and therefore future updates to this website will be more frequent and of a wider context than previously.

Island Publishing was originally created to undertake small scale work in general publishing; pre-press work for catalogues, exhibition guides, menus etc., plus Web pages for small businesses.  Subsequently the interests of the proprietor have evolved but we can quote you for this type of work on request. Main current activities at Island Publishing concern research and publication of material relating to the UK's early railways and Elizabethan/Stuart period coal mining. See Waggonway Research Circle pages and SLS_early_railways Several drafts for further children's books and railway related topics are available for publication. John also has a series of lectures/film shows available for showing.

As a Society member John designed and continues to maintain the web site for the Stephenson Locomotive Society (SLS) and also runs the site for the York Model Railway Show and the Waggonway Research Circle. Due to increasing work load with the SLS he passed on the baton with regard to 4 other websites previously designed and run for external clients.  . 

Fotopic galleries - since Fotopic failed I have been waiting in the hope that the announced rescue package would actually materialise. Although I have now given up any realistic hope that rescue will occur the twofold problem of the fact that I don't like the look on screen of most of the available commercial/proprietary options like Flikr (why I was using fotopic in the first place) and lack of time to develop something myself from scratch using the album software that is out there remains. 2012 might see a return of my on-line galleries but it is unlikely in the short term. Section updated 6 Jan 2012

From the Island and Royal Manor of Portland

Links

Stephenson Locomotive Society (SLS)

York Model Railway Show

A mirror copy of the Waggonway Research Circle site is kept on our web-space server and content is included in the site search facility.

Browser compatibility - Page layout set up works best on a 1024 x 768 screen, reformatting for widescreen coming soon. The CSS formatting has been successfully tested in IE, Firefox, and Opera running on both Windows XP and Windows64bit machines.  However it is noted that the CSS file structure does translate slightly differently between browsers and Opera remains the least satisfactory of the three test bed browsers used.  It is recommended that all browsers are regularly updated to current versions.