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Sutton Coldfield Local History Research Group

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Abortive Tramway

Abortive Tramway [43]

Wylde Green Shopping Centre used to be known as “The Yenton” or the “Tram Terminus”. The trams from Birmingham terminated there because that was the Sutton Coldfield boundary, and the body responsible for making the original tramline from Salford ...

  • Published: 27th February 2009
  • Articles 41-80
27th February 2009 Hits: 4205
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Baron Dickinson Webster

Baron Dickinson Webster/Penns Hall [52]

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 decid...

  • Published: 8th May 2009
  • Articles 41-80
8th May 2009 Hits: 3502
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Blackroot Pool

Blackroot Pool [69]

Thomas Bonell was not happy with the Warden and Society of Sutton Coldfield when they gave a lease to Mr. Dolphin and Mr. Homer a pool at Black Root in Sutton Park. In 1757 forty-eight acres of Sutton Park had been granted to Simon Luttrell of Fou...

  • Published: 4th September 2009
  • Articles 41-80
4th September 2009 Hits: 4014
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Bowmen

Bowmen [73]

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 other books, Blazon of Episcopy and The Woodmen of Arden are rarities. The Woodmen of Arden is a...

  • Published: 2nd October 2009
  • Articles 41-80
2nd October 2009 Hits: 3358
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Bracebridge Pool

Bracebridge Pool [61]

The Earl of Warwick granted a lease of Sutton Manor House and Park to Sir Ralph Bracebridge in 1419, possibly renewing an earlier lease. A bank and ditch earthwork in Sutton Park, believed to date from about 1400, can still be traced, and indicate...

  • Published: 10th July 2009
  • Articles 41-80
10th July 2009 Hits: 3866
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Canwell Estate

Canwell Estate [51]

On the 81 acres of land owned by Sir Robert Lawley in the north-east corner of Sutton Coldfield in 1824 stood two farmhouses and fifteen cottages. This property lay near Canwell Gate, separated from the rest of Sutton by the commons at Roughley an...

  • Published: 25th April 2009
  • Articles 41-80
25th April 2009 Hits: 7801
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Church Repairs

Church Repairs [60]

Church repairs Sutton Parish Church consisted of a chancel, a nave and a tower until Bishop Vesey added to its beauty and seating capacity by building two handsome aisles. The original north and south walls were replaced by a series of large Roma...

  • Published: 3rd July 2009
  • Articles 41-80
3rd July 2009 Hits: 2694
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Cottages

Cottages Pickerel [58]

Vagrancy was rife in sixteenth century England. A law was made making it an offence to give shelter to vagrants, enforced locally in the Sutton Coldfield Court Leet in 1554 - “And that no inhabitant receive any vagrants in their houses, and ...

  • Published: 19th June 2009
  • Articles 41-80
19th June 2009 Hits: 3075
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Draught Animals - Wigginshill

Draught Animals - Wigginshill Oxen [55]

The Medieval way of farming was still being practised by John Greasebrook, a yeoman farmer from Wigginshill who died in 1671. When he made his will, Greasebrook itemized all his land, including twenty-six ridges in the open fields of Wigginshill (...

  • Published: 29th May 2009
  • Articles 41-80
29th May 2009 Hits: 3270
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Draught Animals

Draught Animals Under The Feudal System [48]

Under the Feudal system, villagers rented their farmland from the lord of the manor. In 1308 an inquiry at Sutton set out the conditions which applied locally when land was rented, not for money, but in return for services such as working on the l...

  • Published: 3rd April 2009
  • Articles 41-80
3rd April 2009 Hits: 2676

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