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Welcome to the Island Publishing Home Page
Last updated 5 March 2009
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.
Island Publishing designed and continue to maintain the web sites for the Stephenson Locomotive Society together with sites for York Model Railway Show, Waggonway Research Circle, Weymouth & District Photographic Society and WOW (Weymouth) hosted on Orange (Formerly Freeserve / Wanadoo).
5 Mar 09 - Over the coming weeks page content and in-site navigation links will be reviewed and amended where it needs improvement. Please bear with me during this site rebuilding phase and my apologies for any broken links during the reconstruction period. If your arrived here after being diverted from our former web site URL (hosted by Demon) that web space remains live solely as Demon remain our Broadband ISP supplier and it is part of the package.
From the Island and Royal Manor of Portland
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Mirror copies for other sites we maintain are kept on our web-space server and are accessible via the links below. Mirror page content is included in the site search facility.
Waggonway Research Circle (Mirror copy)
Other sites are maintained for:-
Wessex Association of Model Railway Clubs,
WOW Weymouth Youth Music Theatre,
Weymouth & District Photographic Society
Browser compatibility - Page layout set up for 1024 x 768; the CSS formatting has been successfully tested in IE7, Firefox 3 and Opera 9.62 running on a Windows XP machine. 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 I use. It is recommended that all browsers are regularly updated to current versions. Message updated to last browser cross-platform test exercise - 8 Dec 2008.