Library
Here you can search for any of Nick's books and articles. If you know the title you're looking for simply click in the appropriate letter, if not search by type and subject to find what you're looking for.
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Golden Daze
Twenty five years ago in May 1984, wearing incredibly tight shorts and the occasional ridiculous haircut, a football team from Watford stepped out onto the manicured turf of the old Wembley stadium in the FA Cup Final. As they took to the field they seemed to symbolise changing times, maybe even of revolution. Was the country going to the dogs or the Isle of Dogs? Thatcher was about to take on Scargill and Watford, the unfashionable new kids on the block, were taking on the big boys.
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Gone In A Flash
In which Nick fails to lament the possible passing of speed cameras.
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Healthy Highgate
A look into the history of Highgate in north London.
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Hertfordshire's Port
A look back to the days when the sleepy inland Hertfordshire town of Berkhamsted thumped to the sound of industry and even boasted its own 'port'.
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How Convenient
An 'Opinion' piece in My News magazines in which Nick laments the way services offered 'for your convenience' are often anything but ...
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Hunting Out Hunton Bridge
A look at the history of the small village of Hunton Bridge in Hertfordshire.
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I Hate Traffic Lights
What is it with town planners that they feel they have to litter the urban landscape with sets of traffic lights and kill any possible traffic flow?
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It's ...
In this Opinion piece, Nick delves into the controversial world of punctuation.
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It's My Space Too!
In the last of his columns for 2009 for the My News group of magazines Nick wonders about the impact of our modern obession with technology and gadgets on other people - and whether it really makes us any more efficient.
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James Brindley: The First Canal Builder
a biography of the unsung hero who united a kingdom and lit the spark that ignited the industrial revolution.
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King of Spin
A feature in Siffolk Norfolk Life on Suffolk's Wall of Death hero Tornado Smith.
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Kursaal Flyers
An account of the life and times of Tornado Smith and his Wall of Death at Southend's Kursaal Amusement Park after the war.
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Living Aboard
A practical guide offering advice on all aspects of living on board a boat, of value to the 15,000 people in the UK who do so already and the many tens of thousands more who at any one time are contemplating it. Due for publication in 2008, this will be another in the Tempus Towpath series and will be co-authored with Allan Ford, with whom Nick wrote the highly successful 'Riding the Wall of Death', also with Tempus.
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London Comes To Bucks
Some thoughts on Burnham Beeches outside Farnham Common and how they came to be owned by the Corporation of London, featuring a local walk.
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Looping the Loop in Hadley Wood
A consideration of the position of the exclusive village of Hadley Wood - just inside the M25 and just outside the London Loop walk.
