Niphon Works Building at Blakenhall, Wolverhampton

Image: © Roger D Kidd Taken: 6 Nov 2010

In Lower Villiers Street this Victorian factory building built for Robert Stroud and Company c1865 appears to be derelict and unoccupied, though some activity may be ongoing at the back of the site. Unless an agreement is signed very soon to preserve the frontage in a conversion to apartments, further deterioration seems inevitable. http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/listed/localist/Niphon%20Works.htm http://www.localhistory.scit.wlv.ac.uk/Museum/metalware/general/stroud.htm This 1897 extract is directly lifted from the local history website already given: "Messrs. Stroud and Co.'s machinery, plant and appliances are excellent in every respect, and no doubt the all round superiority of the facilities that they possess accounts in no small degree for the eminence they have attained in their lines of trade. Tin-plate and japanned ware, japanned stationery goods, and all classes of stamped goods, trunks baths, deed and cash boxes, wash stands, toilet sets, coal vases, dish covers, trays and waiters, fire screens, and every description of wares for art decoration are produced in great quantities at these works, the demand for them being an extraordinary one. The sound workmanship and finish and general excellence of all the articles enumerated are admitted, and the goods of this firm are thus able to withstand any competition."

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