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, 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...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Merthyr Tydfil manufacturing history

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 In 1759, in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, an iron works was founded by a group of iron masters. Eight years later, John Guest joined the com...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Welwyn Garden city Manufacturing History

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 The founders of Welwyn had the experience of Letchworth Garden City , built some twenty years earlier, to fall back on. Work began in 1920 ...
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