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 iron. Show all posts

Showing posts with label iron. Show all posts

Saturday, June 7, 2025

Telford manufacturing history

Telford is rightly known as the place where in 1708 Abraham Darby discovered the way to use coke to smelt iron ore and I wrote about this i...

Friday, May 30, 2025

Dudley Manufacturing History

There is evidence of iron working in Dudley in the Domesday Book. It shared the availability of raw materials with its neighbour, Stourbrid...

Tuesday, February 4, 2025

Scunthorpe manufacturing history

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

Friday, January 3, 2025

Consett manufacturing history

There is evidence of metalurgical activity in the Derwent valley in County Durham from early times. There was a rich deposit of coal under...

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Newcastle and Gateshead manfacturing history

Coal was at the heart of the economy of Tyneside which, with its long navigable estuary, was able to ship many of the millions of tons prod...

Friday, May 10, 2024

The building blocks of manufacturing: coal and metals

Coal had ‘tentacles in every part of this changing society’. Landowners loved it, for it lay under their land; farmers benefitted from its ...

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