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.

Showing posts with label Shipbuilding. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shipbuilding. Show all posts
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...
Friday, January 3, 2025

Sunderland manufacturing history

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As a port on the Wear, Sunderland grew from handling exports of coal from the Northumberland coal field. Coal went to London and the southwe...
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