Showing posts with label Aircraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Aircraft. Show all posts
Friday, August 15, 2025

Stockport manufacturing history

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 Stockport was a cotton town which perhaps embraced progress more readily than some others. Traditional spinning and weaving would take plac...
Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Cheltenham & Gloucester manufacturing history

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 In the fifteenth century Gloucester was another centre for the wool and cloth industry. Work with iron was if anything more important with ...
Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Medway towns manufacturing history

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 Rochester was a cathedral city until local government changes caused the status to lapse on its joining the Medway unitary authority. Never...
Thursday, June 26, 2025

Weybridge and Brooklands manufacturing history

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Brooklands Motor Racing Circuit was close to Weybridge and brought motor racing enthusiasts and manufacturers including the Itala Automobil...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Farnborough manufacturing history

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The Factory, as the Royal Aircraft Factory was known to the early aircraft manufacturers, came to Farnborough as the Army School of Ballooni...
Saturday, May 10, 2025

Southampton manufacturing history

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 Southampton was one of the great English ports first identified as so used in Roman times. The port was later ravaged by the Vikings. Henry...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

Hayes manufacturing history

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 Hayes was, in the early nineteen century, an agricultural town untouched by industrialisation except for the Grand Union Canal along the ba...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Hull manufacturing history

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 ‘It presents the eye an interesting spectacle of numerous vessels floating to and from the port of Hull: while that opulent and commercial ...