November 2020

Image: Geoffrey William Geoffrey-Lloyd, Baron Geoffrey-Lloyd of Broomfield Reproduced courtesy of and © National Portrait Gallery, London It has always been the Conservative candidate who has been returned for Sutton Coldfield since the constituency was created in 1945. For nineteen years, from 1955 until 1974, the town was represented in the House of Commons by […]

Image: The churchyard at Holy Trinity where the Revd. Joseph Mendham was interred in 1856 (ref 159a) Reproduced with the permission of Sutton Coldfield Library Anglican clergymen in the nineteenth century were often of a scholarly disposition.  Holding degrees from Oxford, they produced essays or books not only about religion, but also about a range