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'Discover the Hovercraft' takes you on a tour of the Hovercraft's secret world. Learn about the early days of air cushion craft, modern day Hovercraft designs and try experiments to see the Hovercraft principle in action. Model Hovercraft designer Kevin Jackson takes you on a tour of the Hovercraft's secret world. Tracing the history of this extraordinary craft through early ideas and designs to modern craft. Try your own experiments and demonstrate the Hovercraft principle by building and using the momentum curtain Hovercraft testbed described in this book. Discover the designs used for racing and large heavy lift craft as well as other applications of the Hovercraft principle. Find out about the design of the Hovercraft skirt, engines used to power the craft, and how lift and thrust are created. Learn how and where Hovercraft have been put to use all over the world in civil and military applications. 54 pages - Softback cover - ISBN 0-9753414-0-5 Available from Hovercraftmodels.com Kevin Jackson is from Gosport

The Book of Gosport' by Lesley Burton and Brian Musselwhite. This 160 page A4 hardback book will contain over 250 historic photographs.

You may have noticed the advert/ link for 'Mudlark' by John Sedden. This book was written by someone born in Portsmouth, but has spent many years living in Gosport, he has written a number of historical books about, Gosport, Portsmouth and the War. The book is a novel aimed at teenagers, I read it on a sunny Sunday afternoon in my sisters and brother-in-laws garden. I started then reached chapter 10, I had to keep going, to the end. I remember the Mudlarks from going over to Portmouth when I was about 6 years old, well I know the new pontoon was being built by the railway line and The Hard Interchange. The book goes through life during the first world war, the way people lived and some of the things they did, including to others, something to learn for today. Finishing with what some people had to do, for everybody else, even if they did not intend to become involved. I found the end reminded me of what happend to people of a young age, perhaps to a teenager, they would see what could have happened to them at their age in the past. The book is £4.99 and is available from Amazon.

Two detective novels by Peter Holman Smith, who spent a number of years in Gosport. The book are set in a south coast town called Fareport in Hamptonshire. You can order and pay for the books in £’s on his web site, but I have a few of the books so they will be sent 1st class from the UK

- The Gosport Society have stocks of their publications which can be bought through the web site at www.thegosportsociety.com 

- Selection of books by Peter Keat - Gosport Railways

- A publication on sale in the Local Studies Building of Gosport Discovery Centre/ Elson Library. Written by Mr Philip Eley & is titled 'Gosport and the Tram: The Horse-Drawn Years' priced £1.80.

There is a comprehensive section on Gosport ghosts in The Haunted Places of Hampshire by local author Ian Fox. This book (ISBN 1 85306 494 7) is published by Countryside Books of 3 Catherine Road, Newbury, Berkshire. 

- The Purrfect Little Cat Book by Treacle Pelling A Catalogue of my Life - With a little help from my owner. £6.80 (including a donation to Cats Protection) Includes local interest. 69 pages 5x8 ISBN 9781425963729 Order from the link above or Amazon or Waterstones web sites. (18/02/07)

- William Delicate (Bill) has for the last 2 years been researching the History of the Gosport Amateur Operatic Society and has now published a book entitled:- Gosport Amateur Operatic Society - (Through the eyes of William Delicate) or (A lifetime devotion) - Click Here For More Information.

- WAITING TO DESCEND Collected poems of Harry Haines 1953-2006 £11 - Obtainable by phone 023 92 583608 or                 E-Mail h.haines1@ntlworld.com or from Lee- on -Solent Bookshop or Waterstones bookshop Fareham Precinct

- Well I’m Blowed~would you believe it- Dennis Boxall

- I have been living in Gosport since 1977, I work as a Staff Nurse in Gosport War Memorial Hospital. My book is called 'Brown Jade'  ISBN is 1-905203-95-0. Yong Pease. Link To Poster and Web Site

- St Thomas’& Elson & Hardway area by Mike Talbot at £5 (plus 50p P&P UK or £1.50 overseas) from Mike at 142 Albemarle Avenue, Gosport, Hant’s, PO12 4HY profits to St Thomas’

- The history of the water supplies to Gosport from the 1880s through to the present day, has been written by Mike Hedges and myself, incorporates much of the work covered in the book written by David Halton Thomson in 1957. Mike and I have covered the work of the Company over the last fifty years as well as the history of many other organisations which we have taken over in the last fifty years; one of them was the Fareham Water Undertaking in 1959. Not a profit-making initiative as we are principally hoping to recoup the Company's costs of design and printing. From the company Andy Neve

- D-Day as the Newspaper Boy Saw it - by David Maber £6.50

- A new booklet entitled 'Trevor J. Tatham, Architect, of Lee-on-the-Solent' by local historian Philip Eley, is now on sale. Trevor Tatham was an architect who lived and worked in Lee between the wars.Trevor also represented Lee as a councillor before and after it became part of the Borough in 1930. He also was a teacher at the Edinburgh House School in Lee. The booklet is illustrated with architectural drawings from the original building plans. Priced £1 available from the County Library branch in Lee High Street, and also at Elson Library and ocal Studies Centre (23/3/08)

- The Night They Blitzed The Ritz - John Bull also in Bookshop window

Don’t forget to let me know if you have some link to Gosport and have written a book, or a book about Gosport.