Factories on Upper Villiers Street
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Factories on Upper Villiers Street
Image: © John M Taken: 27 May 2016
Edward Bullifant opened the Blakenhall Tin and Japan works on this greenfield site by 1884. John Marston bought the premises in 1898 and set up a factory to produce pedals for his Sunbeam Works on Paul Street as Villers Cycle Company and run by his son Charles. John Marston built his first Sunbeam car in an adjacent building and went on to build the extensive Moorfields Works from 1900. It is interesting to look through the archway to see the typical scale of workshop manufacturing of the late 19th century. Image
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52.571829
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-2.130685