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Every third burial in Sutton - was a child

Friday, January 08, 2010

THE Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield was governed by the Warden and Society, a body of 25 men equivalent to a Mayor and Corporation.

Their rule came under the scrutiny of the Court of Chancery, and the court issued an order in 1824 setting out how the income of the town...

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The commons of Sutton Coldfield

A 1796 miniature of John Riland, Rector of Sutton Coldfield.

Friday, November 27, 2009

HISTORY SPOT: IN 177, three of the biggest local landowners – Mr Hackett of Moxhull, Sir Joseph Scott of Great Barr, and Mr John Riland, Rector...

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Historic bowmen of Sutton

Five hundred years ago, Sutton bowmen were sharpening their arrowheads on these grooved stones, in a wall in Coleshill Street.

Friday, October 02, 2009

THE Victorian Rector of Sutton Coldfield, the Rev W K Riland Bedford, was an antiquarian. His History of Sutton Coldfield is a standard work, but his...

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Sutton Park Blackroot Pool history

Blackroot Pool from the quarry circa 1880. Photo courtesy of Sutton Reference Library.

Friday, September 04, 2009

THOMAS Bonell was not happy with the Warden and Society of Sutton Coldfield when they leased to Mr Dolphin and Mr Homer a pool at Black Root in Sutton...

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Historic finds in top condition

Friday, July 17, 2009

ONE hundred and twenty-two years ago this month, the Warwickshire Agricultural Society Annual Show was held on Four Oaks Park in the grounds of Four...

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Warden of Sutton and public life

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...

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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. He...

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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 permitted...

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