SUTTON: FACTFILE

THE original name for Sutton – first recorded in the Domesday Book – was Sudstone. Disappointingly this means “south farm” and not “backdoor fun”.

FORMER Conservative Prime Minister Sir John Major ( right) was born in the town’s St Helier Hospital on March 29, 1943. His dad was a music hall per former.

THERE are two lar ge areas of green space within the town centre – Manor Park, opposite the police station, and Sutton Green. It’s not known how much porn has been filmed there. GEORGIA-born singer Katie “The Closest Thing To Crazy” Melua ( right) has made the place her home.

THE £8m Sutton Life Centre is designed to “improve life chances for younger people and encourage good citizenship”. It features all walls showing real-life scenes from Sutton’s streets. LIVING Doll crooner Sir Cliff Richard ( far left), 72, attended Sutton’s Stanley Park Junior School as a youngster.

A COMMUTER town, the train takes local people from Sutton to London’s Victoria Station in approximately 26 minutes.

THE Secombe Centre theatre named after Sir Harry Secombe was opened by Sir Harry in 1983, who lived in Sutton for over 30 years of his life. It’s a former Christian Science church.

FORMER rent boy Quentin Crisp ( below), 90 – author of The Naked Civil Servant – was born Denis Charles Pratt in Sutton in 1908.

PARALYMPIC gold medal winner David Weir, 32, hails from the next town of Wallington, which par t of the Sutton Council borough.