Sutton Coldfield Archives

Sutton Coldfield Library has four publications on Francis J. Field, although there might be a folder full of stuff in one of the filing cabinets. The Library has Aero Field Handbooks Nos 3, 4, 7 and 15.

The material is rather haphazard and some of the stuff is catalogued in people's heads and kept in a box on top of a cupboard. This box includes some lovely sketch survey maps of the rail route on fast disintegrating tracing paper. Have photos of some of the key documents.

The Lavender house caused more trouble. Can't find anything on Richmond Road or Tudor Hill that matches the drawing from Walsall archives, so:

a) it was never built;

b) it was built but has been knocked down (war damage?); or

c) it has been altered significantly.

Still think the key might be the dumb well on the original drawing matching the shape on the 1887 OS map.

Been trying to find architects drawings for Sutton Park station, but have had no luck. Apparently it was built to standard MR design so this supports the the thinking on the standardised Goods Shed. A lot of the drawings of rail stations are from the Cattell collection.

Have done another field map overlay and am still having trouble matching things up accurately - a quirk of surveys done at different periods probably. The attached uses magenta for c.1800 and cyan for c.1870. The field numbers refer to the plots affected by the proposed rail line and I have the ownership details for these. The barn is shown on both surveys and is perhaps the reason for the (dumb) well on the OS map.