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, August 15, 2025

Stockport manufacturing history

Stockport was a cotton town which perhaps embraced progress more readily than some others. Traditional spinning and weaving would take plac...

Wednesday, August 13, 2025

Runcorn and Widnes manufacturing history

These towns facing each other over the Mersey share an industrial history of chemicals manufacturing. They were joined by a transporter bri...

Monday, August 11, 2025

Camborne and Redruth manufacturing history - Cornish Mining

Mining in this central part of Cornwall had been going on long before the Christian era with miners from what would become northwest France...

Thursday, August 7, 2025

St Austell manufacturing history

St Austell on the south coast of Cornwall nestled among the mountains of the moon, or so it looked from the back of my mum's cottage. T...

Friday, August 1, 2025

Plymouth manufacturing history

Set on the western approaches, Plymouth was in many ways Britain's door to the wider world. It was from Plymouth that so many of our ad...

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