A Brief History
During our long history at Premier Glass we have manufactured everything from optical lenses to prisms for tanks.

The company was formed by Albert Henry Chattin MBE, passed down to Peter Chattin and is now under the safe hands of Mr Tristram Chattin. The business started when Albert Henry Chattin started making decorative lights in a condemned farm house his his parents has moved to after being bombed whilst living in Birmingham during the Second World War.

On a shoestring budget of just £100 and with a young baby to think of Mr Chattin rapidly built up the business, moving to more suitable premises and turned to manufacture of optical lenses. By 1947 the company was employing over 20 staff and at one stage was the sole supplier of lens blanks to F W Woolworth stores throughout the United Kingdom. The company then moved into the the production of lenses for gun sights and cameras, lenses for BSA meteor rifles and the last British camera the Periflex made in Wolverhampton were all made made by Premier Glass. Other products we have made include concave mirrors for cinema projection, but it was the boom in the construction industry in the 1960's that brought about the biggest change in direction Premier Glass.