Greeting and a happy new year to you all.

BIG NEWS. I have been made redundant from my job at BEALE WILDLIFE PARK after the best part of 10 years. I am disappointed but not bitter as I can now have some lay ins and stay in the warm and dry rather than pre dawn starts in the cold and wet. Anyway enough of that as we need to move on.

What it does mean is that I can devote more time to my other job, the photo library at TRANSPORT TOPICS. So more scanning, hopefully more sales (That's up to you) and with a bit of luck more published images in books and magazines. I can now make more inroads into the as yet unscanned and unlisted negs and slides. Plus of course I can work on the tens of thousands of more modern digital images.

We were hoping to crash through the 33,000 hits on the website in 2024 but alas we just nudged it at a final figure of 32,929. So I know how the English football team feels now, almost there but not quite.

So I will be semi-retired again, as this will be my third early retirement but with a probability that I will be busier than ever but down a different route. Twice I have come out of retirement for BEALE WILDLIFE PARK but this time I very much doubt I will be going back as I have too much to do to catch up on the many things I should have been doing.

Very best for 2025

Martin at TRANSPORT TOPICS