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Sutton Park History

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Again this is from Memory, when it became apart of Birmingham ( I also think it was before West Midlands ).

The sign "YOU ARE INTERING ROYAL SUTTON COLDFIELD" were going to be removed. I think it was the residents got together to keep them in place.

Nick Phillips
 
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Sutton Coldfield

I am hoping someone may have an old map of Sutton Coldfied. I am looking for Aragon House which was on Tudor Hill, this was just on the edge of Sutton Park by the town Gate. There is an Aragon Close there now. The reason I am looking for any info on this is I have just recieved a letter from a...
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Nick Phillips said:
Lloyd, thanks for that. I'm surprised that it was 1974 I would have thought it would have been much earlier.
I do remember that a lot of Sutton residents were unhappy it becoming apart of B'ham am I correct it was "Royal Sutton Coldfield?"

Nick Phillips
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Lloyd is spot on it was1974 and some residents were miffed . Their local Council vehicles livery was Sky Blue with Suttons Coat of arms on the doors.
 
Nick Phillips said:
Again this is from Memory, when it became apart of Birmingham ( I also think it was before West Midlands ).

The sign "YOU ARE INTERING ROYAL SUTTON COLDFIELD" were going to be removed. I think it was the residents got together to keep them in place.

Nick Phillips
A sign on the Sutton Road in Erdington
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oldMohawk said:
The sign apparently did not welcome us, they just let us know we were crossing the border into their Royal Town ....:D
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I remember when you could drive into the park at Wyndley through the water.
G G Jean said:
I worked at Wyndley Leisure Centre for almost twenty years and on days when it wasn't raining I would go and feed the ducks and walk in the park. Such a lovely place to work too.
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I remember when after a night out in Sutton, I would take a short cut home and walk back towards Streetly, having missed or not tried for my last bus. It was very dark, but it seemed a good idea back then and it cut a fair few minutes off my walk.
 
They are on Wyndley Pool which was the only 'safe' pool to be on with average depth 4ft. Another view of curling on Wyndley Pool below
oldMohawk said:
It's Winter 1895 in Sutton Park and Wyndley Pool has frozen over but it has snowed so not ideal for curling. They stopped to pose - top hats, bowlers, handkerchiefs in top pockets and button style trousers on the right !
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Janet Hunt said:
Found this site quoting poems about Sutton Coldfield park they are rather beautiful..

Sutton Park… In Verse – Royal Sutton Coldfield Town Council

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That's very interesting and has brought back a memory of my Dad telling us that someone from his family, Grandfather or Gt Grandfather I think it was, used to write poetry and one was about Sutton Park.

If I remember rightly it started off...
'The sun sinks low in Sutton Park'

I don't think it made it into print though!
 
Time Traveller 66 said:
The postcode still begins with a (B) bet they forget to mention that.
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Well, in addition to Sutton Coldfield there is Halesowen, Bromsgrove, Alcester, Henley-in-Arden and Solihull. Try telling then that they live in Birmingham. :laughing: All seem to have B postcodes.
When I lived in that area Birmingham was distinctly marked with its road signs commencing with B1 an finishing in the early thirties from memory.
 
Time Traveller 66 said:
The postcode still begins with a (B) bet they forget to mention that.
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Radiorails said:
Well, in addition to Sutton Coldfield there is Halesowen, Bromsgrove, Alcester, Henley-in-Arden and Solihull. Try telling then that they live in Birmingham. :laughing: All seem to have B postcodes.
When I lived in that area Birmingham was distinctly marked with its road signs commencing with B1 an finishing in the early thirties from memory.
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Bet they would not complain if they won the Postcode Lottery. I keep moving house and still had no luck.
 
Ornette said:
If you live in Sutton people never let you forget it.
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I wonder do Chelmsley Wood residents also still refer to themselves as living in Birmingham, rather than in Solihull? They became part of Solihull, rather than part of Birmingham during the 70s, when Sutton Coldfield was also swallowed up by Birmingham. I guess it may depend on how long you have lived in each location and what it was known as, when you first began living there.
 
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