Authors

Tim Locke

Tim Locke

travel writer and editor

Tim Locke is a travel writer and editor living in Sussex. He was born in Sydenham in a house once owned by John Scott Russell, a Victorial engineer who was one of the original directors of the Crystal Palace Company. Tim is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers.

— Articles by Tim Locke —

Magazine article

London's cherished ghost: Crystal Palace

by Tim Locke

"To me this is a poignant place evoking a very lost Victorian London." Tim Locke returns to the south London suburb where he was born to look for traces of the capital's most cherished ghost: the Crystal Palace which burnt down in 1936.