A popular and well-known local figure in Warsash, Bryan Woodford has become a successful author for the second time.

Following on from his first book, Warsash & The Hamble River, Bryan Woodford has just compiled a follow-on title, Images Of Warsash & the Hamble River. With even more photographs (313 images in all, 54 in colour), this fascinating new collection of pictures of life around Warsash will interest anyone with family or friends from Warsash. Bryan has linked it with text written in his inimitable style, and emphasises that this is all new material not contained in his first book!

Scenes are shown of the Royal Combined Operations Base and its personnel at HMS Tormentor in Warsash during WW2, and the exploits of landing craft and commandos from Warsash in the English Channel, on D-Day and inland in France.

36 images specifically relate to the Warsash School of Navigation (now the Warsash Maritime Academy) and the TS Moyana. Other pictures provide aerial views, life in Warsash during the strawberry era, recollections of the great houses in the area and well-known visitors, and, above all, the stalwart villagers and their homes.

Bryan Woodford is a member of the Warsash History Society and a keen local historian. He was born in Warsash and served his appenticeship as yachtbuilder with AH Moody & Son in Swanwick, followed by a career in the shipwright branch in the Royal Navy. He is now retired and still lives locally.

Signed copies are available on request.

The dustjacket shows a picture of Warsash during the war by artist James Spencer, an affiliated member of the Armed Services Art Society who lived in Warsash during WW2.