Sutton Beauty Recommended Web Links
The Friends of Sutton Park Home Page says:
"This site is designed to let you know what we do, more importantly to give you a taste of what Sutton Park can offer both now and in the future. Whether you like the park for a game of football, somewhere to get fit or just to sit, relax and watch the world go by, Sutton Park should fit the bill."
A website devoted to the old Welsh Chapel in Lancots Lane (see Sutton Churches). As well as much on the history of the building and the Welsh in Sutton, there are photos and news of the chapel reopening which took place in early 2007. Plus forthcoming events and archive photographs.
Created in July 2007 as part of the community engagement programme for the Big Art Project at Sutton Manor. Visitors can learn about the background to the project and are invited to leave their own comments. (Don't forget Sutton Beauty's own Big Art Project page.)
A blog providing the latest news on Griffin Wood, the woodland (located near Maypole Wood by the Clock Face Country Park) which is being created by Community Forests Northwest and the Mersey Forest. There's a regularly updated web log of activities and events, complete with photos. Plus you can download press reports and study the design plans. You can also learn how to dedicate a tree in Griffin Wood which makes for a rather unusual gift! Very nice site.
Parish Website
A very extensive site with much information on the shrine of the Blessed Dominic, Fr Ignatius Spencer and Elizabeth Prout. Also the history of the Sutton church, current events and service times. Information on pilgrimages to the shrine are posted on the site by the Sutton Shrine Trust.
A website which records sightings of wildlife including birds, moths, butterflies, dragonflies etc. in St.Helens including Sutton. Included is the 75 page St.Helens Bird Report for 2006 which can be downloaded.
Launched in 2006, the St.Helens Heritage website contains much information on the history and geography of the town and districts such as Sutton. Built on the wiki principle of collaborative editing and still very much a work in progress.
Photographer Frazer Nairn has a series of pictures of the Sutton Manor Colliery available on his site. Mainly taken in 1989 by Frazer who in the late 1980s decided to make a visual record of the last remaining pits in the north-west.
"For birds, for people for ever...".
Particularly useful for its very detailed A-Z of British birds but also offers advice pages, an online shop, latest wildlife news and webcams. You can also sign up for the RSPB's monthly e-newsletter.
The website of Sutton Village Church in Herbert Street in Sutton Junction contains plenty of information about the church with full details of services and events. It's impressively updated on a very regular basis with full contact information.
As well as a very busy forum with a diverse range of topics, St Helens Chat also contains a comprehensive local history section, galleries of new and archive photographs, a web links directory, useful St Helens contact numbers and much more.
St. Helens News is your one-stop portal for all the latest local news. Contains feeds to the latest headlines from the St.Helens Reporter, Radio Merseyside, St.Helens Star (inc. Saints news) & Council News pages. Also blogs on a wealth of local subjects and a links directory.
Movie Sound Pioneer
My other web site about George Groves. George was born and bred in St.Helens and rose to become the film industry's first ever 'sound man' when he recorded The Jazz Singer and many other early sound films. He rose to become Director of Sound at Warner Brothers and won an Oscar for his work on My Fair Lady, Yankee Doodle Dandy and Sayonara.