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.

Tuesday, June 17, 2025

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I am on a virtual tour of Britain seeking to discover its manufacturing history and I am adding posts twice a week. You can find more on my...

Friday, June 13, 2025

Warwick and Leamington manufacturing history

Nicholas Paris first made his mark in Warwick in 1670 as a blacksmith and clockmaker. In clockmaking he had been preceded by John Wyse who ...

Thursday, June 12, 2025

Wellingborough manufacturing history

Like so many towns in agricultural areas, cottage industries emerged because of the necessity to supplement the income of agricultural labo...

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Banbury manufacturing history

A market town in an agricultural county, it is perhaps not surprising that Banbury's first venture into engineering manufacturing was i...

Telford manufacturing history

Telford is rightly known as the place where in 1708 Abraham Darby discovered the way to use coke to smelt iron ore and I wrote about this i...

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