Ray 'The Cat' Jones, the Hackney connection… completely missed by Iain Sinclair!

Way back in February I posted a couple of blogs about Iain Sinclair's book Hackney, That Rose Red Empire. What I didn't realise back then, or even earlier when I'd given Sinclair a few pointers as regards research on this book, was that Ray 'The Cat' Jones was a long time Hackney character who during the 1990s featured regularly in The Hackney Gazette. Since Ray doesn't feature in Sinclair's book, I guess this proves that neither of us read the Hackney press with any diligence….

Ray lived for ...