Page 22 • The HERALD • 20th June 2024 v SAY YOU SAW IT IN THE HERALD v Diamond Exterior Cleaning Local Exterior Cleaning specialists ■ Roof Moss Removal & Coating Applications ■ Driveway & Patio Cleaning ■ Gutter Cleaning & Clearing ■ Solar Panel Cleaning DiamondExteriorCleaning.com 07452 824555 nick.diamondexteriorcleaning@gmail.com The next Herald is out on 11th July New Book: From Severn to Solent – Theo Osborn Smith & the Smith family Robin Somes author of “Digging up the past – a collection of Waterside stories” and regular local history contributor to e Herald magazine, has recently written and published a new book ‘From Severn to Solent – eo Osborn Smith & the Smith family’. Robin’s new book is a vivid account of the lives of eo Osborn Smith, boat builder, designer and inventor and his family, who lived on the Waterside for almost 10 years at the beginning of the 20th century. Much of the story is seen through the eyes of his wife, Mary Piper, and their daughter Evie, and interwoven with history and contemporary events on the banks of the Severn in Gloucestershire, in the city of Oxford, Fawley and Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. e book is richly illustrated with over 250 images, many never published before. eo, and his brother Harry, were renowned in their day as the innovators of the planing hull for racing dinghies and many other developments in yacht design. eir lasting legacies include the Royal Corinthian One Design, Yarmouth One Design and West Wight scow, and innumerable other boats, as well as the boatbuilding careers of eo’s son and grandsons – Stanley and Colin Smith, who crossed the Atlantic in 1949 in Nova Espero. 2024 marks the centenary of the production of the first West Wight scows, designed by Theo Osborn Smith, of Yarmouth, Isle of Wight - who was also responsible for building the Yarmouth One Design eet, and many fast racing yawls and others in Oxford in the 1880s and 1890s. is book commemorates that and the centenary of eo’s death in May 1924, and explores the history of eo’s family, in the context of their times. Meanwhile, the legacy of Mary and Evie Smith, and the rest of the family, is a vast hoard of letters and other ephemera, recording the minutiae of life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Published in April 2024, “From Severn to Solent” is available in paperback for £15 (cash only) from e Herald o ce or online: shop.robinsomes.co.uk/ for £15.49 and e-book format £7.99.
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