PORTLAND HARBOUR: COLLECTION OF BLACK AND WHITE POSTCARDS AND PHOTOS

PORTLAND HARBOUR: COLLECTION OF BLACK AND WHITE POSTCARDS AND PHOTOS of war ships and Portland Harbour, various military ships, HMS Westminster, HMS Decoy, HMS Exmouth, HMS Whitshed and others; images of the aerial torpedo attack on Atlantic Fleet in Portland Harbour, September 1919; images of the Fleet Review in 1938, Portland Harbour; glass slides of Portland and war ships, and others Geoffrey Carter was born in London in 1928 . He spent his working life in the education service as teacher, Head teacher and finally Principal Lecturer . From boyhood he had always been interested in the Royal Navy and its history after a visit to Weymouth whilst a small boy. His move to Dorset in 1968 led to his first book, The Royal Navy at Portland ' published in 1987. At that time there were still navel ships using the harbour . He enjoyed the research and went on to write his book , "Crises do Happen" about the Suez War in 2006 . This arose from his work as a part-time volunteer at the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton . He also spent some time travelling abroad as an examiner in speech subjects for Trinity College , London . He had large library of books, amoongst which were some he acquired from writing reviews and his payment was to keep book!