Sutton Coldfield Local History Research Group

The Bailiff of Sutton Coldfield presented an account of income and expenditure to the Lord of the Manor every year until 1528, when Sutton became a self-governing town. John Bailly held the office of bailiff in 1480, and his detailed account for t...

In 1920, when bus services were only just beginning to operate, most journeys between Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham were made by railway train. There were two railway companies offering passenger services, the London and North Western Railway wi...

Many Suttonians were very disappointed that their attempts to prevent a Bill for the building of a railway through Sutton Park being passed by Parliament had been in vain. The Wolverhampton, Walsall and Midland Junction Railway Act of Parliament, ...

According to Peers’ History and Guide to Sutton Park, a Penny Guide published in 1868, “Just opened - a very important attraction to the visitors of Sutton is the establishment of the Royal Promenade Gardens, by Mr. Job Cole of the Ast...

Only a few early thirteenth century deeds relating to Sutton survive, the earliest, issued by Waleran the fourth Earl of Warwick in about 1200, concerns land at Ashfurlong, the exact location of which is uncertain. Two surviving deeds or charters ...

Viewed from Coleshill Street, the east elevation of Holy Trinity Parish Church can be seen to have three large windows, the central one is in the oldest part of the building, the Chancel, while the flanking ones light the two side chapels. The cha...

Sarah Holbeche noted in her diary in September 1863 that remedying woodworm damage in the interior of the Parish Church had cost £723. The work had revealed that the church roof was unsafe, and so the church was closed while a new roof was b...

The firm of solicitors at “Sadler House”, no. 46 High Street, is over two hundred years old. It has moved along the road from the original premises at no. 36, where three generations of Sadlers had their offices in the nineteenth centu...

A third railway station in Sutton, Sutton Park Station, was built by the Midland Railway. I t opened on July the first 1879. A contemporary guidebook to Sutton Coldfield describes the journey from Birmingham to Sutton Coldfield along the Midland R...