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Travelling Through Time, dedicated to our Dads

Our 10th book, Travelling Through Time, will always be associated in our minds with sad endings and joyous beginnings. That's because for much of 2018 as we worked on the book, we were painfully aware that both our fathers were dying and - at the same time - we were awaiting the birth in Sweden of our first grandchild. As it happened our fathers died within a week of one another last October, just as the book was being printed, and little Elsie was born on November 1. Naturally we had to make our pilgrimage to…

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No, the punt is not going to Stockton.

Clangers. Some of my printed errors.

One problem with publishing books is that your errors stay around a long time. You can make a mistake on radio and with luck it's gone and forgotten in a day or two. Even a newspaper isn't so bad: an error will plague you for a week or so and then - unless you are being sued over it - the pain goes away. Books are different. They have a long shelf-life (boom boom!) and so when you make mistakes in books they hang around for ages. And publishing corrections is pretty difficult. You can fix…

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Sailing ship Mount Stewart, photographed by Sam Hood.

A cavalcade of Newcastle shipping

Newcastle has long been a busy shipping centre, and the list of ships to have visited the city would be enormous - if it was even possible to compile. The interwar years were very busy, and our collection of negatives from that period is especially fascinating, particularly given the often-tragic fates that awaited some of the vessels during World War 2. Here are a few examples of some of the ship photos that appear in our most recent book, Travelling Through Time. The lovely photo at the head of this post shows the Glasgow-built steel ship…

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