Safe. no keys. 78cm- 57cm- 53cm 150kg
The Withers were a family of safe makers in West Bromwich where they set up a safe making firm which came to have a commercial history as complex as that of many of the Willenhall lock makers. The people and firms concerned are: George Withers, Mary Withers, Thomas Withers, Samuel Withers, and Jesse Withers. Samuel Withers had set up his own business in Barrow St, West Bromwich - presumably in George Withers' original factory. "Whites Directory of Birmingham & etc " and "Whites Birmingham & District Directory " both show Samuel Withers. His entry in both directories is the same: "WITHERS, Samuel, patentee & manufacturer of the triple patent fire and wedge proof safes, chests &c. Barrow Street, West Bromwich (See advertisement p.80)" The Withers story starts with George Withers, an iron turner, who was born in West Bromwich in . He married Mary Turner (born West Bromwich in ) at St Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, on . They had the following nine children: 1. Rebecca, christened , St Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton. She was my great great grandmother. She married Henry Antcliff and had four children. She died . Her two sons learned the safe making trade from their uncles and set up their own safe making businesses. The older son, Richard James Antcliff, migrated to Brisbane, Australia in and was the only safe maker in the colony of Queensland. The younger son, Harry Richard Antcliff, established the Empire Safe Works in Birmingham. Ad ID: Delivery Service Consumer Credit