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Sunday, June 20, 2010
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Lord Mayor of the City & County of Swansea, Councillor Richard Lewis with a memento of his visit to the National Transport Festival of Wales held at Landore Park & Ride site in the city on Sunday, June 20. The Lord Mayor toured the show’s stands and was delighted to receive a copy of the latest offering from prolific nostalgia book compiler, Bryngold Books director, former South Wales journalist David Roberts. The Lord Mayor said he was delighted with the book, the 12th produced by David in consecutive years.
22nd December 2009
An article that appeared in the South Wales Evening Post on 21st December 2009, showing a then and now picture from David Roberts latest pictorial trip down memory lane Forgotten Faces Of Swansea
5th December 2009
Author Colin Scott signs a copy of his debut book Diesels, Dragons & Daffs at the MIB model railway emporium, Newton-Nottage Road, Porthcawl. To find out more about this glorious full colour railway pictorial which features scenes right across South Wales, click here.
18th November 2009
Signing in
Debut railway book author Colin Scott is likely to be kept busy with book signings. On Saturday, December 5, he is scheduled to visit the MIB model railway emporium in Newton-Nottage Road, Porthcawl from 2 – 4pm. Colin will be happy to sign books for buyers and also indulge in some nostalgic chit chat about railways in general and his project in particular.
Double date
Not to be outdone, author David Roberts who is responsible for a plethora of pictorial nostalgia titles on the Swansea Bay area will be signing copies of his latest book Looking Back at Neath & Port Talbot in the W H Smith store at Wind Street, Neath from 11.30am to 1.30pm on Wednesday, November 25.
13th November 2009
Diesels, Dragons & Daffs
Launched on Saturday, November 14th 2009 our latest title is a true ticket to nostalgia and sure to appeal to railway fans everywhere. Compiled by long term railway enthusiast and photographer Colin Scott Diesels, Dragons & Daffs is a gloriously artistic and atmospheric full colour pictorial featuring diesels in town and country. Designed to appeal not simply to railway buffs it will interest all those who have ever known and loved railways in South Wales and beyond.
The 80-page, A5, landscape book includes locations from one end of South Wales to the other. Supported with a selection of images taken by the author’s friend Stephen Miles it is not a historical record, more a magical miscellany of images of the region’s railways from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Definitely one that is not to be missed it is an ideal Christmas gift.
Check it out now in our Books page.
The 80-page, A5, landscape book includes locations from one end of South Wales to the other. Supported with a selection of images taken by the author’s friend Stephen Miles it is not a historical record, more a magical miscellany of images of the region’s railways from the 1970s to the late 1990s. Definitely one that is not to be missed it is an ideal Christmas gift.
Check it out now in our Books page.