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Showing posts with label Manufacturing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Manufacturing. Show all posts
Monday, September 14, 2026

Financiers, some who sailed near to or sometimes over the line.

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 In my exploration of British manufacturing, I have come across many men whose technical expertise advanced the cause of British industry. T...
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

London as a manufacturing place

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Was London a manufacturing anomaly ? There were no raw materials, no coal and the weather didn't favour weaving. Yet, it was the centre ...
Wednesday, September 2, 2026

New Book - How Manufacturing Shaped Britain

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 This book sets out to discover how manufacturing shaped this island. Why manufacturing spread across the country, how it grew, why it decli...
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Coming soon - How Manufacturing Shaped Britain

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 This book sets out to discover how manufacturing shaped this island. Why manufacturing spread across the country, how it grew, why it decli...
Monday, April 20, 2026

Abraham Darby - iron master

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 Iron ore was smelted by burning charcoal in the Weald and as forests were denuded, smelting spread to other forested areas. Eventually it ...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

South London manufacturing history

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 The south bank of the Thames and the rivers flowing into it, the Wandle and Neckinger, attracted industries needing ready transport for raw...
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...
Friday, August 22, 2025

100,000 blog hits

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 Thank you visitors! I hope you find my blog of interest. You may also like my books on manufacturing: How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Camborne and Redruth manufacturing history - Cornish Mining

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 Mining in this central part of Cornwall had been going on long before the Christian era with miners from what would become northwest France...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Stourbridge manufacturing history

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 Wool was the business of Stourbridge as it was for a great deal of the kingdom from the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries. Yet it was not...

Dudley Manufacturing History

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 There is evidence of iron working in Dudley in the Domesday Book. It shared the availability of raw materials with its neighbour, Stourbrid...
Saturday, May 3, 2025

Reading manufacturing history

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 Reading enjoyed the twin advantages of being in a fertile agricultural county and being positioned on major lines of communication. It was ...
Friday, April 4, 2025

Watford manufacturing history

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 Dating from Anglo-Saxon times, Watford was probably originally a crossing place traversing the marshy Coln Valley and it was this valley th...
Thursday, January 2, 2025

Newcastle and Gateshead manfacturing history

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 Coal was at the heart of the economy of Tyneside which, with its long navigable estuary, was able to ship many of the millions of tons prod...
Thursday, November 28, 2024

Manchester's 19th century tool makers

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Manchester's booming cotton industry with its demands on mechanisation was the obvious place for an ambitious engineer to pursue his bus...

Coventry on the cusp of the twentieth century

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Coventry was a city of engineering skills honed on watchmaking and it attracted first bicycle makers and then the first motor vehicle compan...