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 cotton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cotton. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 4, 2025

Accrington manufacturing history

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 The town’s brickworks were known for making the densest and hardest bricks in the world used for the 'construction of the Empire State ...
Wednesday, October 29, 2025

Oldham manufacturing history

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 Oldham was one of the Lancashire cotton towns but the story of Oldham is perhaps a little different to that of Preston with the advantage t...
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...
Saturday, August 30, 2025

The British in India

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 The Indian sub continent was home to some of the world's great civilisations and was part of the most powerful empires. We need think o...
Friday, August 15, 2025

Stockport manufacturing history

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 Stockport was a cotton town which perhaps embraced progress more readily than some others. Traditional spinning and weaving would take plac...
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