A Gazetteer of Lock and Key Makers

Jim Evans

this gazetteer is copyright Jim Evans, 2002

JAMES GIBBONS LTD  

ST. JOHN'S WORKS,  CHURCH LANE, WOLVERHAMPTON.

James Gibbons Limited has become the oldest established lockmaking business in Britain. The firm has not only produced locks and keys, but diversified into the manufacture of a vast range of products including architectural metalwork, examples of which can be found in the Houses of Parliament and Buckingham Palace.

The story is told in the following parts:
1. Early Years
2. The company in 1897
3. 1897 to 1918
4. 1918 to 1939
5. 1939 onwards
6. 1952 catalogue
 
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