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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Showing posts with label furniture. Show all posts
Friday, December 5, 2025

Inner London manufacturing history 19th and 20th century

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 Inner London, having been for manufacturing a place where the many made things for the few, changed as technology advanced and became home ...
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...
Thursday, November 20, 2025

Inner London manufacturing history

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 London does of course reach back into Roman times if not earlier. By 1700 it had a population estimated at 575,00 which grew to 900,000 a c...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

Long Eaton manufacturing history

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This midlands town was home to my mother's family who had been builders in the town since 1883. The company was called F.Perks & So...
Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Scunthorpe manufacturing history

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 The iron ore fields of north Lincolnshire attracted iron smelting to Frodingham and Appleby, two villages within what became Scunthorpe. Bo...
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