Hi Peter,  To finish responding to your comments on the Zalewski album. I’ve gotten all your emails, so I have been in the loop with all your comments. I don’t think it odd that Zalewski started the album in Japan. It seems he may have gotten the camera to document his new journey. From what I read, at the time, it was customary for many of the...

Mom met a lady on the airplane traveling to Vancouver … this woman works a lot over in China, and Mom told her about the album. This was her reply! Those photographs that Karen has are pretty precious! I am not sure if I will recognize any of the gardens since things have been changing so much all around China. With you & Karen’s permission, I’ll...

The Catholic Children’s Society has replied to confim that the Purley house has nothing to do with them, so we can be pretty sure we’re looking for the name of an individual there too. I’ve sent the photo to the local paper. It’s a shame I can’t spend more time down in the South because I think I could probably get a lot more information...

Good news about your Beijing contact, Karen. I’m afraid I have less good news about Purley. My brother and I drove up and down all the main residential streets but found nothing quite like the CCS House. The town is surrounded by hills so nearly all the streets had houses set up above the road level like ours and many were from the same period, but none had...