Marian Baxter – författare

This fascinating collection of over 200 archive images provides a nostalgic insight into the changing history of Sutton Park over the last 100 years.Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, bringing the past to life and describing many aspects of life in the area, including chapters on work, schools, transport, streets, industry and local events, providing a vital record of vanished vistas and past practices.This book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the history of the area, and also awaken memories of a bygone time for those who worked or lived among this thriving community.

The ancient Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield has a long and interesting history. From the time of its first mention in Domesday Book there have been several generic histories written on the area but this photographic record of Sutton Coldfield, from the early nineteenth century to the 1950s, is the first ever published collection of photographs relating solely to Sutton Coldfield.This fascinating collection of 216 photographs drawn from the Sutton Coldfield Local Studies Library includes examples from a wide range of sources, from the nationally famous photographer J. Benjamin Stone to amateur views taken by the person next door. This unique collection of images of Sutton Coldfield's history and its people will appeal to all who know and love the town and would enjoy a nostalgic look at its recent past.

After the huge success of the first volume of Sutton Coldfield in archive photographs, this second selection continues the story, bringing the town's history up to the end of the 1980s. With the ever-increasing development of the area, the aim is to show how much has survived and how much has changed. Most of the photographs included are of historic and nostalgic interest. They are a record of many of the events and issues which have evoked public interest, concern, sympathy and other mixed emotions over the past century.Sutton Coldfield is unusual in that although its residential population has rapidly increased, it includes significant areas of open countryside. It is now the second largest shopping area in Birmingham and despite the overspill building programmes and the prospect of the Northern Relief Road, it still retains a sense of individuality.Drawing on the extensive photographic archives of Sutton Coldfield Central Library where the author works, this fascinating collection of over 200 old images will appeal to all those who know and love this unique area.

This book charts the development of Erdington from an agricultural hamlet into a busy modern suburb in the city of Birmingham. This superb new collection of over 200 old photographs, many published here for the first time, have been drawn from the Local Studies section of Birmingham Central Library. Accompanied by detailed and informative captions the reader is taken on a tour around Erdington as it used to be, taking in factories, shops, pubs, garages, transport and local people.