The house where the Jacko Jones diaries were found – 38 Norfolk Ave., Wood Green, was owned by my grandparents through the 1950s, although I am not sure when they purchased the house.
Jones never mentions his address in the diaries – and why should he – the diaries were his own notebooks, recording his thoughts, working out ideas which later appeared in the Daily Chronicle. But we know he lived in Norfolk Avenue because of the many letters he received there which were retrieved still in their envelopes.
Sadly my grandparents and my parents died before I discovered these papers – they were moved out of the house when my grandparents and aunt moved to Saltdean in Sussex.However I know that my grandfather and my father were both regulars at Highbury – my grandfather in the early years, my father (who was born in 1910) from the 1930s,, and it is clear from some correspondence that there was a family connection. My grandfather on my mother’s side worked as a typesetter for the Chronicle, and it was quite possibly this connection that led to my paternal grandparents taking on the house from the Jones family.
I am still researching this aspect of the story, and will add more as I find it.
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