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Back in 1995 I published my first book covering football grounds in Kent. Since then I have worked with other authors to cover their home counties. I have lost count of how many books I've published and and cant really be bothered to count! Many books are now out of print so any left are listed as Collectable, others are running low in numbers. My aim is to call a halt in 2029 when I'll have been publishing books for longer than my day job of teaching. I'll then be a retired publisher which sounds a whole lot better! |
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Looking back at albums of prints from before 2002, the year I bought a dgital camera, I saw many images which I'd never use in a book. Many were average shots but with careful use of Photoshop decent images can be drawn out. Find out how in Cropped. |
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Tim Lancaster toured the Faroe Islands and took photos of the grounds he visited. The amazing backdrops and the character of the grounds made it worthwhile sourcing photos of the other grounds to compile a worthwhile book. Printed in black and white to add further imapct to these great photos. | |
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I moved to Swansea in 1972 and Swansea City's Vetch Field is my all-time favourite ground. Over the years I visited a good number of grounds in Wales and put this book together featuring the best, arranged in a themed order not ground by ground. A book I'm especially proud of. | |
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Visit a ground and take a photo or two and you are recording how the ground looked at a moment in time. Over the years there may be enormous changes, or none, or the ground could be lost. This book gives reader the chance to consider how a good numbe of Welsh grounds were a number of years ago. | |
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In 1905 The Book Of Football was published in twelve weekly parts. Bound copies are highly collectable but in this book I used the ground photos, along with others from the time, to share the amazing work of the early photographers. Some grounds had to be identified, with many locations now known for the first time. | |
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I have known avid football memorabila collector John Daniels for years. He very kindly agreed to share his postcard collection with me and along with a number I'd sourced myself over maybe twenty years I was able to put this fascinating book together. | |
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I'd been collecting programmes for decades and reaised that many had excellent photos of grounds on their covers, a trend which was at a peak in the 1960s. Within this book there are some amazing covers, memories both of great grounds but also cracking proper programmes. | |
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For nigh on twenty years I'd been trying to get to every ground in Kent down to the Kent County League level. Of course each year new teams joined but by 2011 I had got to all that were currently involved. Check the pages as some grounds have changed so much. |
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Memories of finding a ground by looking out for the floodlights, then the special atmosphere of an evening game. An experience now sadly lost for the most part but remembered in this book, arguably the first covering floodlights as a focus and subject. |
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The book that started it all! Back in 1995 I was programme editor and photographer with Crockenhill FC. I innocently believed I'd been to every worthwhile ground in Kent and thought a simple photocopied fanzine-style book might appeal. Thirty years later I'm still publishing! |
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