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Title: Just Off The Swale
Author: Don Sattin

Price: £12.50 + p&p

Details: This is the illustrated history of the North Kent creek-side village of Conyer where in the late 19th century prolific sailing barge building was carried on, a trade which continued right up to World War II. Researched and written by Don Sattin, a local resident who for many years was a shipwright at the bargeyard, his recollections bring to life this once vibrant centre of Victorian enterprise.

In addition to the barge building, he describes the growth and decline of the cement and brick-works, which owned and used the sailing barges to bring their raw materials and deliver their finished product. He writes of the characters who lived there, both afloat and ashore, barge captains, fishermen, shipwrights, brick and cement workers, even of 'Lord Haw-Haw' who had his motor cruiser moored and maintained at Conyer. Appendices record the launching of all the barges from John Bird's and later Alfred Marconi White's yards, as well as the racing successes of their output.

Specification:
Size 250 x 180, 144 pages, 100+ photographs and drawings, perfect bound with laminated card covers.

ISBN 0-9532422-8-5