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Sutton Coldfield Local History Research Group

Regular meeting, Tuesday - Sutton Coldfield Library (2.00pm to 4.30pm)
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Hacket Street

Hackett Street [188]

Sarah Holbeche noted in her diary “1826. New road to the Park, a great boon, before which the only access was at Doe Bank”. The new road was built as part of an agreement with Sir Edmund Hartopp of Four Oaks Hall known as the Hartopp Exchange, whe...

  • Published: 13th January 2012
  • Articles 161-200
13th January 2012 Hits: 3140
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Rectors And Holbeche

Holbeche And Rectors [168]

  • Published: 26th August 2011
  • Articles 161-200
26th August 2011 Hits: 2716
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Hurst Green

Hurst Green (peramb) Aylesford Peddimore [179]

The old boundary of Sutton, as recorded by the Enclosure Commissioner in 1824, followed Hurst Brook from the canal to Wishaw Lane.Hurst Brook rises at the moat of Peddimore Hall - it is now a ditch cutting a straight line across a flat prairie, bu...

  • Published: 11th November 2011
  • Articles 161-200
11th November 2011 Hits: 2789
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John Verney

John Verney [165]

In 1416 the Head Forester of the Earl of Warwick’s Chase of Sutton Coldfield reported to the Court Leet at Sutton that some men had let their pigs loose in the lord’s park without permission, to the destruction of the vegetation there....

  • Published: 5th August 2011
  • Articles 161-200
5th August 2011 Hits: 2565
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Kings Arms

Kings Arms [175]

In 1935 the old Kings Arms public house was demolished and a new pub was built in its place. The old Kings Arms was a brick building with mock-Tudor decoration, possibly built in the eighteenth century. The earliest record of it is a map of 1763, ...

  • Published: 14th October 2011
  • Articles 161-200
14th October 2011 Hits: 3639
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Little Sutton Lane

Little Sutton Lane [184]

In 1800 Lichfield Road was still “a tortuous and narrow road which led up to Mere Pool”, but it was much improved when it was taken over by a Turnpike Trust in 1807. Tamworth Road was even worse, and Little Sutton Lane led down the hil...

  • Published: 16th December 2011
  • Articles 161-200
16th December 2011 Hits: 3744
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Manor Mills

Manor Mills [190]

The Domesday Book, compiled in 1086 for William the Conqueror, is a survey of all the manors in England. Sutton Coldfield is included, one of over 350 manors in Warwickshire, and details of its size and assets are given. The survey does not mentio...

  • Published: 27th January 2012
  • Articles 161-200
27th January 2012 Hits: 2863
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Marmaduke Dawney

Marmaduke Dawney [166]

Sir Wolstan Dixie, a London merchant, gave Emmanuel College, Cambridge, £600 in 1594. The College, which had been founded ten years earlier by Dixie’s friend Sir Walter Mildmay, used this money to buy property which yielded an annual i...

  • Published: 12th August 2011
  • Articles 161-200
12th August 2011 Hits: 2641
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Minworth Works

Minworth Works (peramb) Canal Basin [178]

Mr. Harris, making his tour of the parish boundary of Sutton Coldfield in 1824, arrived at the point where it turned away from the River Tame near Minworth Mill. He noted that the other side of the river lay in Aston Parish while land further alon...

  • Published: 4th November 2011
  • Articles 161-200
4th November 2011 Hits: 3276
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Moot Halls

Moot Halls [167]

Moot Halls Sutton Coldfield became a self-governing town in 1528 by virtue of a Charter granted by King Henry VIII. The Charter stipulates that the Town Council comprise twenty-five men, to be known as the Warden and Society. Every man in Sutton ...

  • Published: 19th August 2011
  • Articles 161-200
19th August 2011 Hits: 2900

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