Alice Stuard left a will and in that document she opened up a host of relationships of kin and friendship that teach us about the family life and the business affairs of a widow who was a shrewd business woman.

You are very welcome to this series of Talks and Walks in which Jeff Richards, a trustee of the Friends of St Nicholas Churchyard, explores some of the stories from St Nicholas’s and Sutton’s past. He is a partial, prejudiced & ignorant historian and everything he says will cause proper historians to throw up their hands in horror.