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...