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William Dutton took on the lease of Longmoor Mill in Sutton Park in 1825, paying his rent to the Warden and Society of Sutton. The mill, once known as the button mill because buttons were polished there for the Birmingham trade, had been converted...
“Thousands of our townsmen will be glad to find in Sutton Park the fresh air and recreation they cannot easily obtain nearer home” - so said the leader in the Birmingham Journal of May 31st 1862, anticipating the opening of the branch ...
At a big open-air meeting held in Sutton in 1854, one of the speakers, the rabble-rousing Mr. George Horatio St. Clair, said of the Grammar School “with ample funds, with no want of money, with £400 or £500 a year, with a good sc...
The red kite must once have been a common bird in Sutton. When the Pinner (in charge of the town pound, where stray animals were kept) had to describe the colour of a stray horse to the Sutton Court Leet in 1563, he said it was kite-coloured - “A ...
Sutton Coldfield celebrated Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee on Tuesday 22nd June 1897. “All Sutton was early astir” wrote an anonymous visitor “and the proceedings of the day were really commenced at nine o’clock, when the Mayor cut the first sli...
The wealthiest man in Sutton in 1676 was Henry Pudsey of Langley Hall. On his death in 1677 half his estate was bequeathed to his eldest daughter Elizabeth (then aged 10), who later married Henry Lord Ffolliott - this half of the estate included p...
The boundary of Sutton follows the south bank of the E brook to a point about 300 yards south of Penns Lane, where it heads off in a westerly direction along an old watercourse. This old watercourse or ditch runs along the south side of a playing ...
The account of Robert Kelynge, the bailiff of Sutton, for the year 1433 survives in the Stratford Record Office. He recorded all the income and expenditure for the year for the Lord of the Manor, who was Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick. One of ...
The manorial court of Sutton Coldfield dealt with succession to property. At the 1416 court, for example, Thomas Mason came into court and was approved as the inheritor of a selion or strip of land in Sutton Open Field, but in order to own it he h...
In 1563 Hugh Sherratt was fined twenty pence by the Sutton Court Leet for failing to maintain stiles on the public footpath which crossed his land. For almost everybody at that time walking was the only means of getting from A to B, and there were...
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