Lavender House?

Not sure of the address of the Lavender house - it just says Tudor Hill. When commissioned there were very few other houses in the area. The owner Mr Matthew Overton but houses weren't numbered until a bit later. Suggest we head up there with the drawings and match them up. The initial thought was that it was a house on the right as you go up the hill, but looking at the older OS maps there is a house half way up Richmond Road on the left that has a similar footprint though!

Jamboree Train Tickets

The 1957 Scout Jubilee Jamboree used three stations on the Sutton Park Line, namely Sutton Park, Streetly and Sutton Coldfield. Jamboree attendees were issued with boarding passes colour-coded to the station they should use. Sutton Park was blue, Streetly was yellow and Sutton Coldfield was red. Apparently there were trains every 12 minutes for a while.

Archive visit

The Lavender plans (Walsall Archives) are attached, details come. There is no other address apart from Villa for Mr M Overton Tudor Hill, Sutton. The drawings are dated January 1880 and should match up with the 1881 Census. Have all three drawings in full but have cropped for ease of mailing.

Archives Visit

Colours

There is a pared-down administrative look of a lot of the documents around with occasional touches of decoration and in particular the colour manilla/buff could be useful in the publication phase. Could add it to the purple of the stripes, etc.

Aerial Photos

Another note on this subject... In LfV there is one poor aerial photo of the site credited to the US Army. There are surely a whole load more aerial photos around of the site given the richness of military targets.

Railway Society

There is a railway society in Sutton Coldfield. It seems to be more about modelling but this does seem to be backed up by a deep knowledge of railway history.