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Mason Street, WOLVERHAMPTON, WV2 3AG

Looking east, Mason Street links Lower Villers Street with Dudley Road.

The view in Blakenhall, Wolverhampton.

See http://www.wolvesmethodism.mikejackson.org.uk/Pountney%20Street/index.html

Off to the left is Fellows Street and Graiseley Park.

The view from the corner of Johnson Street down the A459 in Blakenhall Wolverhampton.

Beep-beep-beep-beep ... Looking north, terraced housing is on the right, and three storey shops and housing is off to the left. The bus is a Transbus Trident new to West Midlands Travel (Fleet No 4595) in 2004.

The view into Lower Villiers Street, Wolverhampton. The tall building is the former Niphon Works build in 1865 to make tinware and japanned goods, the church spire is St Luke's Church.

November 2010. Compare with http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/627596 December 2007. In Lower Villiers Street this Victorian factory building built for Robert Stroud and Company c1865 appears to be derelict and unoccupied. 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."

Niphon Works in 2007 Image] https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2017/07/08/historic-niphon-works-to-become-apartments/ http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/listed/localist/Niphon%20Works.htm

Niphon Works in 2007: Image] https://www.expressandstar.com/news/2017/07/08/historic-niphon-works-to-become-apartments/ http://www.historywebsite.co.uk/listed/localist/Niphon%20Works.htm