I received a request last week regarding the cockpit instruments that were standard in the Royal Aircraft Factory RE8, one of the...

Following a request from a number of people who have read my book 'Leaning on a Lamp Post', I am including here a composite map of the town of Basingstoke (UK), being a black and white 1894 map of the city superimposed on a colour photograph of the same area, courtesy of Google Earth. A great deal of research went into the section of the book that took place in Basingstoke during 1910, especially in the area around the old wharf (now the bus station). It is interesting to see