Selling the dream: Churchman & Duke

Cataloguing sales particulars for a New Town By Nick Corbo-Stewart, Archivist and Volunteer Coordinator Post-war re-development of Crawley led to a large scale planned expansion of the town, creating areas for industry, retail, and urban living.  Classified by the government as a ‘New Town’ and overseen by the Crawley Development Corporation (CDC), this was one of…

Cataloguing Crawley New Town: The New Town Blues

By Alice Millard, New Jerusalems Project Archivist Please be aware that this blog post discusses mental health issues and drug use. No, the 'New Town Blues' were not a football club, but rather the name given by the British press and several 20th century sociologists to a perceived phenomenon occurring in the country's new towns…