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 Shoes. Show all posts

Showing posts with label Shoes. Show all posts

Saturday, February 15, 2025

Stafford manufacturing history

A power house of British electrical engineering, Stafford was of course a shire town but one that was soon outgrown by other towns in its c...

Norwich manufacturing history

The second largest city in Britain at the start of the eighteen century made wealthy by wool, Norwich, with a population of 30,000, was a c...

Northampton manufacturing history

In my perambulation around the manufacturing towns of Britain, I have normally found the presence of raw materials and water, ideally navig...

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Leicester Manufacturing History

My exploration of British manufacturing has been sector by sector and chronological. It is time now to begin to join up the dots and explor...

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