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Showing posts with label steel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steel. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 18, 2026

Coming soon - How Manufacturing Shaped Britain

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 This book sets out to discover how manufacturing shaped this island. Why manufacturing spread across the country, how it grew, why it decli...
Monday, June 15, 2026

Edward, Tom and Albert, and Douglas Vickers - three generations of steel makers

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 By the mid eighteenth century members of the Vickers family were in business at Mill Sands, Sheffield as millers. With the growth of steel,...
Tuesday, February 24, 2026

Western Scotland manufacturing history

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 To many this area is synonymous with the Clyde and shipbuilding. Interestingly it was also where Singer set up their first UK sewing machin...
Sunday, January 25, 2026

Manufacturing history of Wales

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Coal, iron ore, copper and tin were the raw materials that made Wales key to the British industrial revolution. Slate from North Wales cover...
Monday, October 13, 2025

Merthyr Tydfil manufacturing history

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 In 1759, in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, an iron works was founded by a group of iron masters. Eight years later, John Guest joined the com...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Corby manufacturing history

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 Corby was a rural Northampton village with a history going back before the Domesday Book. As with so many places, it was the railway that c...
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...
Friday, January 3, 2025

Consett manufacturing history

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 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, April 18, 2024

Who else shaped the manufacturing world - American steel

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 The story of American steel making begins in the wake of the Civil War. A number of academics take a start date of 1867 which coincides wit...
Saturday, April 13, 2024

Who else shaped the Manufacturing World - German steel

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 In Britain, the relatively large scale production of steel probably began in the mid eighteenth century with the discovery by Huntsman of a...