The first book I wrote, published in 1980, was The Story of the Hoo Peninsula, written while I was living on the Isle of Grain, and in this book the Isle of Grain is included as part of the Hoo Peninsula. I quickly grew to love this area of North Kent, bounded to the north by the Thames and on its south and east sides by the River Medway. It weas this book that began my publishing career and a desire to write about the Medway area in its entirety, but with a particular interest in the economic and social development of this unique area of North Kent.
My Medway titles:The Story of the Hoo Peninsula (1980
)Isle of Grain Defences (1980
)Chatham Dockyard Story (1981
)Chatham Built Warships since 1860 (1986
) Chatham Dockyard: The Rise and Fall of a Military Industrial Complex (2012
). Chatham Dockyard, 1815-1865: The Industrial Transformation (2020
).Medway Towns at Work (2017
) Secret Chatham (2016
)Secret Gillingham (2019
) Secret Rochester (2019
) If War Should Come: Defence Preparations on the South Coast 1935-1939 (2011
) When the navy took to the air: the experimental seaplane stations of the Royal Naval Air Service (2017
) The Short Brothers: The Rochester Years (2019
) The Thames Estuary's Military Heritage (2013
)In February 2025, my latest book,
Lost Chatham, will be published, this is a popular book designed to presents a portrait of Chatham over the last century to recent decades.
