{"id":1239,"date":"2013-02-17T12:08:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T02:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=1239"},"modified":"2020-02-05T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2020-02-04T21:57:01","slug":"sunbeamland","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=1239","title":{"rendered":"Sunbeamland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3135.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1234\" alt=\"Sunbeamland\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3135.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3135.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3135-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3135-624x417.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<p><center><\/center>Sunbeamland was where it all began. This was the site of Richard Perry Son &amp; Co&#8217;s Jeddo Works, founded in 1790. John Marston purchased this business in 1871. It went on to become the home of Sunbeam bicycles and motorcycles until 1937.<\/p>\n<p>The factory is in the triangle formed by Jeddo, Paul and Pool Streets, Wolverhampton. These streets are on the corner of the Penn Road (A449) and the Wolverhampton city ring road.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com.au\/maps?q=52.57961,-2.131906&amp;num=1&amp;t=h&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=14&amp;output=embed\" height=\"350\" width=\"425\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<small><a style=\"color: #0000ff; text-align: left;\" href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com.au\/maps?q=52.57961,-2.131906&amp;num=1&amp;t=h&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=14&amp;source=embed\">View Larger Map<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Photographed on 28 April 1998.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1237\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1237\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3138.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1237\" alt=\"The corner of Pool and Paul Streets, viewed from the car park in Church Lane. Pool Street runs left to right across the photograph.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3138.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3138.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3138-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3138-624x418.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1237\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The corner of Pool and Paul Streets, viewed from the car park in Church Lane. Pool Street runs left to right across the photograph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1236\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1236\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3137.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1236\" alt=\"Looking down Paul Street towards the Penn Road.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3137.jpg\" width=\"625\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3137.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3137-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3137-624x417.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking down Paul Street towards the Penn Road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3136.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1235\" alt=\"Sunbeamland\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3136.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3136.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3136-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3136-624x417.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1233\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3134.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1233\" alt=\"The view down Jeddo Street towards the Penn Road.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3134.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3134.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3134-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3134-624x417.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The view down Jeddo Street towards the Penn Road.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1232\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3133.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1232\" alt=\"Looking back down Pool Street now. This is the corner of Pool and Jeddo Streets.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3133.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3133.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3133-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/album3133-624x417.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looking back down Pool Street now. This is the corner of Pool and Jeddo Streets.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1238\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1238\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sland7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1238\" alt=\"An illustration of the factory from a 1914 catalogue. This is the junction of Pool Street (to the left) and Paul Street (to the right). Just to the right of the Sunbeamland sign, in Paul Street, is a doorway. This is the doorway pictured in my second last photograph. There's a bit of artistic licence involved here. From Robert Champ's Illustrated History of Sunbeam Bicycles and Motorcycles.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sland7.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sland7.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/sland7-300x170.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An illustration of the factory from a 1914 catalogue. This is the junction of Pool Street (to the left) and Paul Street (to the right). Just to the right of the Sunbeamland sign, in Paul Street, is a doorway. This is the doorway pictured in the third photograph above.<br \/>There&#8217;s a bit of artistic licence involved here. From Robert Champ&#8217;s Illustrated History of Sunbeam Bicycles and Motorcycles.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunbeamland was where it all began. This was the site of Richard Perry Son &amp; Co&#8217;s Jeddo Works, founded in 1790. John Marston purchased this business in 1871. It went on to become the home of Sunbeam bicycles and motorcycles until 1937. The factory is in the triangle formed by Jeddo, Paul and Pool Streets, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/?page_id=1239\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunbeamland<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1086,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1239","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P6ptz4-jZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1239"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2374,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1239\/revisions\/2374"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sunbeam.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}