Blue Plaque for former Chubb Building, Wolverhampton. UK
N 52° 35.236 W 002° 07.414
30U E 559376 N 5826719
Former building for Chubb and Sons Lock and Safe makers.
Waymark Code: WMZR89
Location: West Midlands, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 12/27/2018
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Plaque:
Wolverhampton Civic Society
Chubb & Son's
Established 1818
manufactured
Locks and Safes
at
The Chubb Building
1899 - 1938
Chubb and Son's Lock and Safe Company
History:
Chubb was started as a ship's ironmonger by Charles Chubb in Winchester, England and then moved to Portsmouth, England in 1804. Chubb moved the company into the locksmith business in 1818, in Wolverhampton.
The company worked out of a number of premises in Wolverhampton, including the purpose built factory on Railway Street, now still known as the Chubb Building. His brother Jeremiah Chubb then joined the company, and they sold Jeremiah's patented detector lock.
In 1823, the company was awarded a special licence by George IV, and later became the sole supplier of locks to the General Post Office, and a supplier to Her Majesty's Prison Service.
In 1835, they received a patent for a burglar resisting safe, and opened a safe factory in London in 1837. In 1851, they designed a special secure display case for the Koh-i-Noor diamond for its appearance at The Great Exhibition.
The Chubb Electronic Security subsidiaries produce smoke detectors, fire alarms, burglar alarms and glass break detectors.
Sherlock Holmes says in the Arthur Conan Doyle short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" that Irene Adler has a Chubb lock on her London villa's door.
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Now used as a Business Centre, but still retains the Chubb Building name.