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PRN | 8051 | ||||
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Site or location name | Villiers Engineering Works | ||||
Summary | Blakenhall Tin and Japan Works | ||||
Description | Two storey office frontage with archway to long rear courtyard with single storey workshops to both sides. Edward Bullivant's Blakenhall Tin and Japanning Works on Upper Villiers Street was bought by John Marston in 1898 to provide bicycle pedals for his Sunbeamland factory. By 1902 the firm had also developed and patented a bicycle freewheel mechanism before going on design motorcycle engines prior to the First World War. During the war production shifted to fuze, shell, aero components and tappets for motor engines. | ||||
Monument Type | AIRCRAFT ENGINE FACTORY;MUNITIONS FACTORY;AIRCRAFT ENGINE FACTORY | ||||
Desgination | None | ||||
Material | BRICK | ||||
Location |
Country | ENGLAND | ||||
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Site Location | East side of Upper Villiers Street near junction with Park Street South | ||||
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Map Reference | NGR: SO91269712 (391260, 297120) | ||||
Condition/Threat | |||||
Condition (Date) | Fair (28-05-2016) | ||||
Source | |||||
(2016) The Villiers Engineering Co Ltd: From bicycle parts to engines. Wolverhampton History & Heritage Website: Covering the Black Country. http://historywebsite.co.uk/Museum/Engineering/Villiers/Villiers2.htm | |||||
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Recorded By (Date) | John M - Geograph (27-05-2016) | ||||
Copiled On | 28-05-2016 | ||||
Last Updated | 28-05-2016 |
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Kinghorn, No 1 Redoubt, or Forth Outer Defences, Kinghorn Battery (Grange Cottages, Pettycur, Kinghorn, Fife). Courtyard. (File name: 8051_624.jpg) |
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Kinghorn, No 1 Redoubt, or Forth Outer Defences, Kinghorn Battery (Grange Cottages, Pettycur, Kinghorn, Fife). Front elevation. (File name: 8051_623.jpg) |
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