Meet Some of the Borough's Former Residents!

All sorts of people have lived in the local area, famous and infamous, ordinary and extraordinary. Their lives give us glimpses of the past.

This collection of biographies will grow. If you know of someone who should be included, please contact us.

• Ann Duck, 1717-1744
• Mary "Polly" Stevenson Hewson, 1739-1795
• Robert Burra, 1767-1846
• William Tatton Winter, 1855 - 1928
• George Rice, c.1874 - ?
• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, 1875 - 1912