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The “King's Norton Metal Company”
was a private mint founded in King's Norton, Birmingham in the 19th century. It became part of “Nobel Industries Ltd.” in 1918. This firm was one of those that founded “Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd.” in 1926. Around 1931 the whole minting facility was moved to Kynoch Works, Witton. In 1962 all of ICI’s metal interests were put under the cover of “Imperial Metal Industries Ltd.”. This name that later became just “IMI Ltd.”, then IMI Metals Division. In early 1991 “IMI plc” bought “The Birmingham Mint Ltd.” of Icknield Street, Hockley in the Birmingham Jewellery Quarter and the KN equipment was moved there from Kynoch. The mint at Icknield Street was named IMI Birmingham Mint Ltd., sold off from IMI in 1998 and placed in administration 2003.. |
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THE MINT BIRMINGHAM
LIMITED,
1794, Ralph Heaton I forms a company in Slaney Street
Birmingham.
1808 - 1812, Moves to Shadwell Street.
1810, Ralph Heaton II apprenticed to Thomas Willetts as a Die Maker.
1817, Ralph I gives Ralph II tenement and shop at the corner of Bath
Street and Shadwell Street.
1847, Business becomes Heaton and Son.
1850, Ralph II purchases equipment from Soho Mint. The equipment is moved
to Bath Street.
1860, Icknield Street site bought. |
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