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 railways. Show all posts

Showing posts with label railways. 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...

Monday, November 4, 2024

Swindon manufacturing history

Swindon would become one of the great 19th century railway towns, but at the end of the 18th century it was a place largely passed by. Kenne...

Thursday, October 24, 2024

A town created by the railways - Crewe

Crewe is the third town cited by Asa Briggs as created in the 19th century. It was created by the railways for the railways and Diane Drumm...

Thursday, April 4, 2024

Derby and the Museum of Making

The city of Derby is a home of British engineering and of probably the first textile factory at the Silk Mill. This has been repurposed to ...

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