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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Saturday, November 29, 2025

East London manufacturing history 19th and 20th centuries

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  Docklands The first decade of the nineteenth century saw an expansion in docks which would guarantee London's position as the wor...
Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Ilford manufacturing history

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 The manufacturer of photographic film that shares the name of the town was founded in 1879 and moved to a larger factory in Basildon in 197...
Friday, August 1, 2025

Plymouth manufacturing history

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 Set on the western approaches, Plymouth was in many ways Britain's door to the wider world. It was from Plymouth that so many of our ad...
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