Sutton Coldfield Now (5 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This book is part of the Then & Now series, which matches old photographs with modern ones taken from the same camera locations, to demonstrate the changes that have occurred over the years. The images include streets, buildings, people, and social activities in each local area. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.…

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good.

Condition: Good. Some outer edges have minor scuffs. Cover has light scratches/marks. Textblock has marks. Reading content is in very good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket.

Loose as Issued. Condition: Very Good. Unique. Small rectangular ORIGINAL drawing of Four Oaks Park Hall, demolished in 1898. Measures 5 x 6.5 inches, written on the back by one of the Hartop family as seeing it as a visitor? and also spelling the name with a single "P" and not the double "PP" as seen today. From an old archive belonging once to Helen & Vincent Holbeche of Sutton Coldfield. Drawn on thick pale grey Victorian art card with embossed and raised borders of animals and pilasters, back has some old album paper adhesion, but not affecting the image and "quotation" and details visible of the person who drew the image. This is a GENUINE and probably unique front elevation aspect of the house, prettily drawn by this amateur related/family artist. WITH this item there is a business card invite for "1st Administrative Battalion Warwickshire Rifle Volunteers. Parade and Light infantry Drill at "Four Oaks Park 1867 + a small vignette copper engraving of Hartopp's Pool "With Keepers Cottage" this spotted and has an adhesion piece of paper down left hand side. also adhesion of blue paper on the reverse + a letter dated Aug 23rd 1864 signed by him on "Four Oaks" embossed paper (he died on the 16th October 1864). (4 items as one) NOTE: *Today; Four Oaks Park or the Four Oaks Estate lies south and west of Four Oaks Road as far as the railway line. Early 20th-century houses here were built on the parkland of Four Oaks Hall from which the district derives its name. It is alleged that three of the original oaks may survive in a garden in Hartopp Road. The 17th-century mansion was built for Lord Ffolliot c1680 on land formerly part of Sutton Park near Luttrell Road. By 1792 Edmund Cradock-Hartopp had bought the hall and its estate, in 1827 persuading Sutton Corporation to allow him to enclose yet more of Sutton Park to make his own park a more satisfactory oval shape.…