Title: Southdown at its Zenith
Author: Colin Druce
Publisher: Bowden Publishing
ISBN: 978-1-8382445-1-1
Specification: 280mm x 215mm, 226pp, hardback
Price: £35

Southdown, like London Transport, continues to generate new books and this latest by Colin Druce covers the 1950s when the fleet reached its peak size and began a slow slip into decline.
As a teenager, south Londonborn Druce first became interested in its extensive operations in Sussex and Hampshire from 1957, and has drawn on archive material and an excellent selection of period black and white photographs to record in detail how the company evolved in a decade when the company’s fortunes began to turn.