Philip Hamlyn Williams - my history of British Manufacturing

Britain shaped the manufacturing world. A bold assertion, but is it true? My book How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World seeks to answer this question. The next question is what happened to British manufacturing? The result of my quest to find answers to that question is in Vehicles to Vaccines. I am now exploring Manufacturing places.

Friday, November 7, 2025

Billingham and Wilton manufacturing history

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 In 1917, the village of Billingham in County Durham suffered the agonies of the First World War as the rest of the country where young men ...

Northwich manufacturing history

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 The wich-es in Cheshire, Northwich, Middlewich and Nantwich have provided salt for centuries along paths known as salt ways, like the one b...
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Accrington manufacturing history

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 The town’s brickworks were known for making the densest and hardest bricks in the world used for the 'construction of the Empire State ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Oldham manufacturing history

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 Oldham was one of the Lancashire cotton towns but the story of Oldham is perhaps a little different to that of Preston with the advantage t...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Belfast manufacturing history

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 Ireland moved later than much of Britain away from a subsistence economy. The island as a whole was not rich in raw materials yet the clima...
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