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Sutton Coldfield

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Apologies if not new. I'd not seen it before. I live nearby.

Taken 1928. The first match on the bowling green was 11/05/29, pavilion just visible, bottom left. I think the turf may have come from the grassed area, middle left.

Shows the train turntables on what is now the carpark.

Interesting building, now gone, in the middle of the trees just above the Railway Road road sign. Far fewer trees then and the current retaining wall had not been built.

The grassed area middle right is the Royal bowling green.

Edit, also visible bottom right is the gate up to the hotel from the station. This remained, along with an old fashioned lamppost, until the Sutton apartments were built.

Source: https://britainfromabove.org.uk

Not many SC pictures.

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I can only think that it refers to Hill, as we know it today. It's in the right area but I'm not sure. Names and area boundaries change over time and the PC is over 100 years old.
 
Does anyone know if Sutton Coldfield Borough Council Planning Committee minutes are held in the Central Library? I'm interested in seeing the Gracechurch application, apparently approved in 1969.
 
If it is then - listed building entry Lichfield Road
No 107 (The Leasowes) SP 19 NW 2/109



2. Circa 1890 by Ernest Newton. Unusual combination of materials: red brick, tile hanging, some timber framework with plaster infilling, some stone dressings. Tiled roof, mainly hipped but with pair of front gables on right, 1 back gable projecting. Tall red brick chimney stacks. Lattice casement windows, box dormers. 2 storeys and attics. Entrance front central castellated 2 storey projection forming porch, 1st floor multi-light stone mullioned window, dome with ball finial. See British Architect, 1894, vol 41, p417; Architectural Review, 1901, vol 9, pp185-7; Ernest Newton, A Book of Country Houses, 1903.
 
Googled Ernest Newton and he was London based so probably didn't design many Birmingham buildings.
It the came up with the listing for The Leasowes 107 Luchfield Road designed by Newton. I checked streetview and thought it matched.
 
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