November 2021

Image: (L) John Willmott, from the Pageant Supplement in the Sutton News, and (R) Arthur Terry’s mayoral photo. Reproduced with the permission of Sutton Coldfield Library. There are secondary schools in Sutton Coldfield named after the long-serving town councillors John Willmott and Arthur Terry. But what were these men’s stories? John Edward Willmott was born […]

Image: Moxhull Hall, built in 1900. Reproduced with the permission of Sutton Coldfield Library. Moxhull Hall is situated three miles from Sutton Coldfield. For six centuries the estate was in the possession of the de Lisle family. It is a story complicated by the absence of heirs, second marriages and imaginative new arrangements. When, at