Sutton Coldfield Local History Research Group

“I suppose I shall never again know such happy hours as those I spent at Wylde Green before the war, watching the horses at work on that raised plateau. To the left the farmhouse built in Shakespeare’s time, to the right and below one, the rich Wa...

For sixty years after the Norman Conquest Sutton Coldfield was a royal manor. During this time the King’s men improved the Manor House, giving it a curtain wall of stone and a chapel dedicated to St. Blaize, and adding the deer park which is...

Zachariah Twamley was born at New Shipton Farm in Sutton Coldfield in 1773, one of a large family. His father was the miller at New Hall Mill, and Zachariah followed in his father’s footsteps - for many years he held Castle Bromwich Mill on the ri...