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Sutton Coldfield Local History Research Group

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Published: 2nd April 2025

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Wednesday, 02 April 2025

Council House in Victoria Square - Extra images

Council House in Victoria Square

looks very impressive with The River artwork and water feature (“Floozie in the Jacuzzi”) in the foreground.

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Cross o’th’ Hand and The Stone Tenement

Cross o’th’ Hand

One might never realise that the impressive façade of No. 16 and 18 High Street hides an interesting secret unless you look up at its chimneys. If not the originals, they could well be replacements for those that were there at the time of a complete residential refurbishment in 1816 of an important public house known to have been in Sutton Coldfield High Street called The Red Lion, which itself may have been built in the late 1600s! This article attempts to show the history of the site.

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Author: Janet Jordan (SCLHRG)
Published: 11th January 2026
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Sutton Coldfield Farms 1900 - 1950

Farms 1900 - 1950

Live Excel Spreadsheet for Sutton Coldfield Farms from 1900 to 1950. Not suitabe for viewing on small screens or phones.

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Author: Don McCollam (SCLHRG)
Published: 18th September 2018
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Original Research

The Case of the Contested Divorce

The Case of the Contested Divorce

Before 1857 a marriage could be dissolved only by an Act of Parliament, the cost of which was prohibitive to all but the extremely wealthy. The 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act provided a much cheaper method by giving the High Court of Justice jurisdiction to grants divorce decrees. This meant that people in humble circumstances could petition for divorce. One such person was William Hopkins, a labourer from Whitehouse Common, who instructed Sutton Coldfield Solicitors Messrs Eddowes & Son to obtain a dissolution of his marriage in 1900. This article, based on a file of papers found in the Solicitors’ office in 1977, recounts the progress of the divorce case from petition to hearing, and throws some light on legal practice in the late Victorian/early Edwardian era.

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Author: Kerry Osbourne (SCLHRG)
Published: 3rd December 2025
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A 1920’s account of the History of Sutton Coldfield

A 1920’s account of the History of Sutton Coldfield

In the months prior to Sutton Coldfield’s Pageant marking the 400th Anniversary of the creation of the charter which gave the town of Sutton Coldfield its powers of self-government, a substantial article in the Tamworth Herald dating from Saturday 18th February 1928 briefly touched on the proposed celebrations before providing this lengthy description of the history of Sutton Coldfield.

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Author: Paul Harrison (SCLHRG)
Published: 7th November 2025
Research
Original Research

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Little Sutton Green [65]

Little Sutton Green

John Honeybourne had to stop what he was doing on Tuesday 19th November 1751 when the Constable ordered him to be on the jury at a...

Published: 7th August 2009

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Visit to Birmingham City Council House on Thursday, 27th March 2025

Shenstone Visit 8th March 2023

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