ALAN WHALLEY'S WORLD

SUTTON is not especially famed for its scenic grandeur. It's pancake-flat rather than undulating in nature.

So reader B. Coupe took it with a pinch of salt when his dear old aunt, an old Suttonite now living in Derby, paid him a visit and insisted that there was a historic hill in her hometown patch.

"I told her that talk of this Hill of Sutton was rubbish," says BC, from Avon Road, Birchley. Nevertheless, he accompanied her on an afternoon of exploration into deepest Sutton, searching for that elusive geographical feature.

Auntie's hill must have expanded with time since her girlhood memories of it.

"We found an area with a slight rise to it called the Battery Cob, between Reginald Road and the former Bold power station," reports BC, "and auntie recalled picnic days in that area before the war.

"Perhaps," he suggests, "others could remember events on Battery Cob during that that era?"

ANY Sutton old-timers able to oblige, and perhaps explain the origins of that grassy bump's odd title? If so, please drop me a line .

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