July 2020

Image: Sir John Serocold Paget Mellor, 2Bt Reproduced courtesy of and © National Portrait Gallery, London The parliamentary constituency of Sutton Coldfield came into existence in 1945.  Up to that point Sutton had been part of the Tamworth constituency.  In the last seventy-five years Sutton Coldfield has been represented by just four MPs – all of […]

Image: Wyndley Lane, 1892 Photograph reproduced by permission of Sutton Coldfield Library This charming photograph of Wyndley Lane in the late nineteenth century was taken by Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914).  If you have ever heard of Sir Benjamin Stone, it will probably be as a photographer.  Stone was in fact the most famous amateur photographer