Lower Parade - 1850's

Aside from the two innkeepers, the people who lived in the houses on Lower Parade in the 1850s were mostly farm workers and semi-skilled artisans, but the picture shows what a strange mixture the buildings were. The white house with the square sign-board was the Dog Inn, and the three-storey building was the Coach and Horses inn, while in the single-storey house next door lived Peter Pimlott the shoemaker.

Some of the families were large - there were forty children altogether - handy for the Town School which can be seen in the background.

Original photo and information sourced from Sutton Coldfield Local History Research Group - Norman Evans Collection.