This chronicles the life of the author of The Old Straight Track, the book which gave birth to ley lines. But Watkins had varied interests—his family ran the Hereford Brewery, he invented the first exposure meter, became a successful archaeologist, was a fan of steam cars, bee-keeping and Free Trade. The book includes 80 photographs, many of them taken from Watkins’ original glass plate negatives stored in Hereford’s city library.