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Showing posts with label Shipbuilding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shipbuilding. Show all posts
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 ...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Edward, Tom and Albert, and Douglas Vickers - three generations of steel makers

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 By the mid eighteenth century members of the Vickers family were in business at Mill Sands, Sheffield as millers. With the growth of steel,...
Monday, June 1, 2026

Isambard Kingdom Brunel

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 Isambard, born in 1806, was the only son of Marc Brunel the celebrated engineer of the Thames Tunnel. Marc was French and as a royalist fle...
Tuesday, March 10, 2026

Northeast England manufacturing history

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 This was surely the powerhouse for the Industrial Revolution in Britain, with abundant coal, iron ore and limestone, a canny workforce and ...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Western Scotland manufacturing history

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 To many this area is synonymous with the Clyde and shipbuilding. Interestingly it was also where Singer set up their first UK sewing machin...
Sunday, February 15, 2026

Northern Ireland manufacturing history

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 The traditional manufacturing industry in the six counties was linen. However, the presence in Belfast of Harland & Wolff underlines th...
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...
Friday, November 21, 2025

East London manufacturing history

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 Writing of London in the Nineteenth Century , Jerry White remarks on the large proportion of the population – some 30% - who made things, c...
Sunday, October 26, 2025

Belfast manufacturing history

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 Ireland moved later than much of Britain away from a subsistence economy. The island as a whole was not rich in raw materials yet the clima...
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...
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...
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...
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...