Image: The Parade, as George Preston would have known it. Town School can be seen in the lower right hand corner Reproduced with the permission of Sutton Coldfield Library During the 1950s the churchyard at Holy Trinity was cleared of most of its monuments. However, a number of headstones were saved and can be seen […]
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Image: New Hall College c. 1895. Three of the boys who attended the school can be seen. Reproduced with the permission of Sutton Coldfield Library For working class and lower middle-class children in Sutton Coldfield there were, from 1826 onwards, a number of elementary schools, funded by the corporation from the sale of timber from
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Image: Sutton Coldfield in c.1815. The town would have looked much the same at the end of the eighteenth century Reproduced with the permission of Sutton Coldfield Library In July 1766 the body of a woman was found in woods on the outskirts of Sutton Coldfield. Her throat had been cut. The body was
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