Sutton Coldfield

A Walk Around This Royal Town

[@ChrisOREILLY-gc4yq]

I was born in Sutton Coldfield in good hope hospital aka no hope locals at Birmingham used to say Back in 1978 precisely the 25th of December but now I live in Chester UK i5 from Chester UK 🇬🇧👍😎

[@debbiehall7016]

My husband's (I believe his..) 9th great grandfather; John Hall was born here in 1611/12.. [Sutton-Coldfield, Warwickshire] His father was Ellisha/Ellis Hall. Thats all i know about him there. John emigrated to Massachusetts, British Colonial America in 1630, just 10 years after the Pilgrims landed the Mayflower on Plymouth Rock!

[@podman1935]

Who remembers the cycle shop opposite Lloyds bank’ vessey house, the owner repairing bikes. I used to dream of having a racing bike with 5 gears😊. I was 12 years old then

[@slapdogpuppyspank8754]

Lees. A nice bloke who was friendly and respected us kids.

[@hondapete1]

Hi from Canada, really enjoyed your walk. you passed though a lot of places that i have been in ,i could tell you a lot off stonys about how it used to be and the pub,s and the havoc that we created in the late 1960s and mid 1970s once again thank you the last part of the video with the walkway i drove my1275 mini downthe walkway

[@kevkonk]

Tell us more👍👍

[@acquiesce100]

Tell us more please??? I grew up here as a kid in the 80's. What were the shops like in the 70s and the pubs and did you ever get the diesel DMU trains from Sutton into Birmingham at that time or Sutton to Lichfield?

[@kevkonk]

Great, what cam do you use?

[@WalkingUK]

Hi It is a DJI Pocket 2

[@kevkonk]

@@WalkingUK Not sure what type that is, but I have seen the brand on DJ Audits and PJ channel, where they use a drone, is is one that you hold or strap to yourself like the Police do. Thank you for replying, appreciated 👍👍

[@PDews]

Bit of shame you missed out the station pub past the station rail station, as you left the cobbled walkway at the end of your video (Past my old mans flat on the right, yep the new ones) you could of gone through the rail station and found the pub. Interesting video fella. Rather enjoyed it seeing my fave local the three tuns.

[@Lichfeldian--Suttonian]

❤ Enough said. ❤

[@malcolmpoole8795]

its Royal Sutton Coldfield please !!

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

It is called the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, the Royal being bestowed on the town by Henry 8th, but Sutton Coldfield has just been a district of the City of Birmingham since the council boundary changes of 1974 when the City of Birmingham took over 98% of Sutton Coldfield from Warwickshire County Council who gave this area over to the West Midlands County Council at the same time, the other section of Sutton Coldfield around Streetly was handed to Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council.

[@slapdogpuppyspank8754]

Ha ha, I know where to ask for when I'm coming from the Yenton...

[@Lichfeldian--Suttonian]

​@@peterwilliamallen1063 Too true. The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield. Royal Charter date: 16th December 1528.

[@peterwilliamallen1063]

@@Lichfeldian--Suttonian It was because of this Royal status that Birmingham lost it's City status and position of second City in 1974 for a short time on the boundary changes when Warwickshire County Council relinquished this part of Warwickshire to the West Midlands Metropolitan County in the 1974 boundary changes and the West Midlands County gave most of Sutton Coldfield to Birmingham and the Streetly section to Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council, as the main part of Sutton was now a part of Birmingham the local councillors demanded that Sutton Coldfield be represented on the Birmingham Coat of Arms and so Birmingham lost it's City status and Coat of Arms until something was sorted, becoming for a while the largest Town in the UK, the conclusion was that the Birmingham Coat of Arms would stay the same but instead of the crown at the center it was replaced by a bishops mitre to represent Bishop Vesey of Sutton Coldfield, the new coat of arms satisfied the Sutton Councillors and was presented to the Heraldic Commission who passed it and registered it as the new Birmingham Coat of Arms and was passed by our late Queen, Queen Elizabeth 2 who bestowed City Status on Birmingham again , this making Birmingham even larger as the UK's Second City. This produced a strange situation of the Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield also being a district of the City of Birmingham and a few years back, even though now officially Sutton Coldfield's coat of Arms are not registered at the Heraldic Commission due to being a part of Birmingham, Birmingham City Council allowed replica old type Royal Sutton Coldfield boundary signs to be erected at the old borders of Sutton Coldfield that was within Birmingham, but nothing happened in the area of Sutton that became a part of Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council

[@Lichfeldian--Suttonian]

Yes, I was 8 years old when the change happened on that 1st of April and we were living on Green Lanes at the time. Interestingly enough, I don't ever remember an old Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield sign on, say, Thornhill Road, Walsall Road, and/or Little Aston Lane: we lived on Rosemary Hill Road from 1976 to 1977 on the Staffordshire side.