Northfield is found 7 miles South of Birmingham city center, UK, and is a suburb of the city on the A38 main road South to Bristol. The village was mentioned in the Domesday book as Nordfeld. Please leave your comments underneath. Comeback soon & enjoy visit here.

TASCOS Gift Store + cottages


TASCOS Gift Store + demolished cottages that was opposite Northfield Market now Aldi store. c. 1955. Looks like the house of a local MP Donald Chapman (1923-2013) MP between 1951-170)


Chapman was educated at Barnsley Grammar School and Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he graduated with a degree in economics in 1948. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Birmingham Northfield from 1951 until he stood down in 1970. He was on the staff of Nuffield College, Oxford from 1971 to 1973 and became Special Adviser to the ECC Commission on Environmental Policy in 1981. From 1985 to 1988, he was Director of Wembley Stadium. He was created a life peer as Baron Northfield, of Telford in the County of Shropshire on 20 January 1976.




(William) Donald Chapman 1964

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