Witton

[Vivienne14]

From a hamlet with a few mills and streams and a manor house to an industrialised suburb of Birmingham and location of a substantial cemetery.

There's a thread about the manor house here
https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/threads/witton-hall.56425

 

[Pedrocut]

“In the middle of the 19C Witton was the remote and hardly-known hamlet.”

Witton was the hamlet that was chosen to site the percussion factory of Pursall and Philips, away from the inner city, after the tragic explosion of 1859 at Whittall Street. Then of course moving the explosions to Witton.