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.

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Friday, August 22, 2025

Washington, Peterlee and Newton Aycliffe manufacturing history

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In the late forties the New Towns initiative got under way with the objective of providing housing to those made homeless by enemy bombing ...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Kingston upon Thames manufacturing history

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Kingston was possibly the most important market town in Surrey. Like so many places, its history was built on the wool trade. In the fifteen...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Portsmouth manufacturing history

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 Portsmouth was one of the earliest homes of naval shipbuilding; there is some evidence that Richard the Lionheart's ships taking him on...
Saturday, March 8, 2025

Chelmsford manufacturing history

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 A treat for any amateur industrial archeologist, in 1987 Stanley Wood published a booklet describing Chelmsford Industrial Trail updated by...
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