I am very interested in local history and have written many books including, 'Images of Plymouth', 'Plymouth at War', 'Saltash Passage', 'St Budeaux', 'Plymouth Hoe', 'Saltash' , 'Mount Edgcumbe', 'Memories of St Budeaux', 'Plymouth Tales From the Past'. 'Plymouth Through Time', 'Saltash Through Time', 'Rame Peninsula Through Time', 'Devon Through Time', 'Cornwall Through Time','Devonport Through Time', 'River Tamar Through Time', 'River Tamar Through the Year', 'Plymouth Transport Through Time', 'Plymouth From Old Photographs', Plymouth ar War Through Time', 'An Illustrated History of Butlin's', 'Houdini The British Tours', 'Images of Plymouth : Stonehouse', 'A 1970s Childhood' and 'Dartmoor Through the Year'.

I've also written four books about my experiences living in Singapore and Malaya during the 1960s including 'Sampans, Banyans and Rambutans', Memories of Singapore and Malaya', 'More Memories of Singapore and Malaya' and 'Monsoon Memories'.

Check out my Plymouth Local History blog at:

plymouthlocalhistory.blogspot.com/

Many other books available at www.amazon.co.uk

My photographs have been published in various publications including The Western Morning News, The Evening Herald, Singapore Magazine, Singapore Today, The Nottinghamshire Wildlife Trust Magazine, The Plymouth Magazine, the Plymouth Shopper, Schmap and the Plymouth Summer Festival. They have also been used by BBC Southwest on Spotlight and on their programme, 'Inside Out' and appear on the Plymouth version of Monopoly.

My website is at

www.derektait.co.uk/

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