Sunbeamland

Sunbeamland is the name for a manufacturing complex close to the centre of Wolverhampton, near England's "Black Country".

Sunbeamland is where John Marston, a design engineer and entrepreneur, developed several large clusters of factory buildings.

A mile south of Sunbeamland, in Blakenhall, lies the Sunbeam Motor Car Company and Villiers Engineering, which became two of Wolverhampton's most important industries.

They had been Edward Bullifant's Blakenhall Tin and Japan works premises on the east side of Upper Villiers Street close to St Luke's church.

The house and its grounds bought by Marston in 1898 were on the southern boundary of the first Villiers Engineering premises.

Paul Street in 2009
Pool Street 2009
Blue Plaque awarded by Wolverhampton Civic Society attached to the Sunbeamland works
Marston Road 2009
Yard behind Upper Villiers Street premises
A Villiers engine with a non-standard cylinder head
Portion of Moorfields Works 2009
Offices, showroom and workshops for
Sunbeam Motor Car Company
Upper Villiers St, Wolverhampton
Automotive House, 1905–1906, Grade II, on the site of Moorfield House. Moorfield House's former stable was the workshop in which a Sunbeam motor car was first produced
Joseph Lavender, F.R.I.B.A.,
St Luke's Church, Blakenhall is in the left background
The experimental workshops where special cars and engines were built
Paint shop 2009