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7 unusual facts about Sutton Coldfield


1982 Professional Players Tournament

One was at the La Reserve in Sutton Coldfield and the other was the International Snooker Club in Aston.

Arnold Horace Santo Waters

Sir Arnold Horace Santo Waters VC, CBE, DSO, MC (23 September 1886, Plymouth – 22 January 1981, Sutton Coldfield) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Birmingham Metropolitan College

The buildings were mostly constructed in the 1950s as purpose-built structure although the college also obtained the Grade II* listed Moat House which was built in the 17th century by Sir William Wilson.

Chelmsley Wood

Chelmsley Wood shopping centre has a bus interchange which hosts buses that go to and from Birmingham City Centre, Solihull, Coleshill, Warwickshire, Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham International Airport.

John Vesey

He died in 1554 and was buried in Holy Trinity Church on Trinity Hill, Sutton Coldfield, which is annually visited by the school in a ceremony.

O. S. Nock

Oswald Stevens Nock was born 21 Jan. 1905 in Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, UK, the son of a bank employee, Samuel James Nock, and a schoolteacher Rose Amy née Stevens.

Shenstone Lodge school

Shenstone Lodge school is a residential special school for children with behaviour or emotional difficulties, in Shenstone, Staffordshire, England, between Lichfield and Sutton Coldfield.


George Bodington

His great professional interest was pulmonary disease and in 1836 he acquired the asylum and sanitorium at Driffold House, Maney, Sutton Coldfield.

Henry Folliott, 3rd Baron Folliott

He married Elizabeth Pudsey, heiress of Langley Hall, Sutton Coldfield in 1677 and built a substantial mansion, Four Oaks Hall, Sutton Coldfield, to a design by architect William Wilson.

Midlands Today

Midlands Today is broadcast from the Sutton Coldfield transmitter in the West Midlands and can be watched in any part of the UK on Sky, Freesat and in the rest of Europe via Astra 1N at 28.2° East (10788V 22000 5/6).

Rubella Ballet

The band was formed by former Fatal Microbes Pete Fender (Dan Sansom, guitar), Gem Stone (Gemma Sansom, bass) and It (Quentin North, also bass), with vocalists Annie Anxiety and Womble, and drummer Sid Ation (born Sid Truelove, 18 April 1960, Sutton Coldfield, a former chef, later also the drummer with Flux of Pink Indians).

Wiggins Hill

Wiggins Hill did consist of a 15th-century timber-framed house named Wincelle (the name of the hamlet in the Magna Carta); however, in 1910, it was dismantled and reassembled at its current site overlooking New Hall Valley Country Park, in New Hall Valley on the Wylde Green Road in Walmley, Sutton Coldfield.


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Jane Rossington

The daughter of a bank manager, she attended Sutton Coldfield Grammar School and was an amateur actress, having trained in the Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama, before appearing in repertory theatre in Sheffield and York.

Penns Hall

In 1618, John Penn was operating two water mills for corn milling and for blade sharpening in Sutton Coldfield.

Sutton Coldfield Town Hall

A moot hall was built in Sutton Coldfield during the time of John Vesey, Bishop of Exeter, at a site at the top of Mill Street.

Sutton Park

There is a Sea Cadets dry-dock training vessel ("the Concrete Corvette") at Boldmere Gate along with the headquarters of the 1st Sutton Coldfield Sea Scouts, and at the other side of the park the 9th Sutton Coldfield Scouts.