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.

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Chiddingfold and British glass making

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 Glass makers in the area of Sussex surrounding Chiddingfofd took advantage of the wood available in the Weald, the sand under foot and the ...
Sunday, September 14, 2025

Ripley manufacturing history

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 In Derbyshire's Amber Valley in the 1790s, three Derbyshire men came together to create what would become the world's first industr...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Long Eaton manufacturing history

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This midlands town was home to my mother's family who had been builders in the town since 1883. The company was called F.Perks & So...

Aberdeen manufacturing history

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 Granite City, and any visitor will know immediately why Aberdeen is so called. Yet at the start of the nineteenth century this was not the ...
Saturday, September 6, 2025

Edinburgh manufacturing history

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 The capital city of Scotland, with access to the sea at the port of Leith, had for centuries a closer relationship with the continent of Eu...
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