The tragic yet inspiring legend of ‘Paper Jack’

Who was Paper Jack? A well-educated son of a prosperous London businessman, he worked as a surveyor and helped to map a portion of the Brighton Railways. During the war, he was employed by the War Office decoding Secret Service documents. He married Ellen Miriam Brandon in 1917. They lived together on Brighton Road in […]

Discovering Croydon’s surprisingly nice architecture

Neighbouring Sutton, Croydon was recently listed in the top 10 of the UK’s worst towns. In the authors opinion this is very unfair. Croydon appears to have a relatively small amount of people that continually manage to tar its reputation. But it has a surprisingly expansive shopping district with, for example, one of the largest […]