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 21, 2025

East London manufacturing history

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 Writing of London in the Nineteenth Century , Jerry White remarks on the large proportion of the population – some 30% - who made things, c...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Inner London manufacturing history

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 London does of course reach back into Roman times if not earlier. By 1700 it had a population estimated at 575,00 which grew to 900,000 a c...
Friday, November 14, 2025

Yeovil manufacturing history

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 Yeovil’s traditional industry was glove making from locally sourced hides. It was a substantial industry with the final glove factory closi...
Thursday, November 13, 2025

Ardeer manufacturing history

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Perhaps Alfred Nobel's greatest invention was dynamite, a combination of nitroglycerine and a soft, white, porous substance called kies...
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 ...
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