Last updated 13 June 2013
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.
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Former Fotopic galleries - My collection of on-line images were previously hosted by Fotopic but that company folded. Although a rescue package was announced it failed to materialise leaving me with a two-fold problem; I didn't like the front-end design of most of the available commercial/proprietary options like Flikr (why I was using Fotopic in the first place) plus lack of time to develop something myself from scratch using the album software that is out there. This delayed rebuilding of my galleries on this website although I did create several albums on Facebook. (Rebuild commenced here in May 2013.)
From the Island and Royal Manor of Portland
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The Waggonway Research Circle site is kept on our web-space server and content is included in the site search facility.
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