Image: A World War II-era can of Spam Photo courtesy of Hormel Foods Corporation In the evening of 7 May 1945, the British people heard on their wireless sets that, after almost six years, the war in Europe had finally come to an end. Across Britain people celebrated – and, it seems, no more vigorously […]
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Image: The Empress Cinema, the Parade. Movies at this cinema kept up morale during the Second World War and were well-attended. (ref 262) Reproduced with the permission of Sutton Coldfield Library It was a beautiful day when war was declared. Suttonians had gone to church in larger numbers than usual that Sunday morning, 3 September
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Image: The tomb of Bishop Vesey, Holy Trinity, photographed c. 1885. (ref 155) Reproduced with the permission of Sutton Coldfield Library In a book I have recently written – but which has not yet been published – about Sutton Coldfield in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, I describe Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School as being
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