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Baron Webster lived at Penns Hall.

Saturday, May 09, 2009

JOSEPH Webster owned the thriving wire mill at Penns, and in 1842 he made his 24-year-old son his partner in the firm.

The son, who bore the unusual Christian name, Baron, had returned to Sutton from university three years previously, having decided to work in the mill...

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Grundy's work won great praise

Left; Stereoscopic photograph by W .M .Grundy looking across Mill Street to the first Town School, c1855 Photograph courtesy of the Norman Evans Collection.

Thursday, November 27, 2008

"O ctober 29th 1847. Mr. and Mrs. Grundy came to Mrs. Willoughby's house" – so wrote Sarah Holbeche in her diary. This diary was recently...

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Sutton Coldfield was represented in the House of Commons by the four Knights of the Shire

The old Moot Hall at the top of Mill Street was still standing in 1837, when the polling booth for the General Election was set up beside it

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

T he Parliamentary Constituency of Sutton Coldfield came into being in 1945. In previous centuries Sutton had been represented in the House of...

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A new warden was chosen every year

The old Red Lion, taken by William Grundy, the pioneer photographer who died in 1853 (from the Norman Evans Collection at Sutton Coldfield Reference Library).

Friday, October 10, 2008

The first Warden of the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, named in the Royal Charter, was William Gibbons, who took up office on December 16, 1528....

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Park was deemed common land

Tuesday, October 07, 2008

Sutton Park, granted to Sutton Coldfield in 1528 by Royal Charter, was soon under threat from another provision of the same Charter. This...

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Poor past of Sutton workhouse

Friday, October 03, 2008

THE former workhouse in Mill Street is a reminder that there were many poor people living in Sutton in the past. In the Middle Ages the poor of...

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