Letter from America

Read about the story of a quarryman called Thomas Jones and his wife Mary Ann who travelled to America from Cusop in 1831 after a failed attempt to find coal. Find out how one of his children who was born in Cusop in 1829, named John Percival Jones, was to become one of the richest men in the world and found Santa Monica. Read more about this fascinating story in our Letter from America

from David Charles who travelled to Santa Monica in search of the history.