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.

Saturday, August 31, 2024

Macclesfield manufacturing history

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 Home to silk with reputedly two hundred mills at one time. Home also to Hovis and now Astra-Zeneca, building on the home of the ICI pharmac...
Friday, August 23, 2024

Bradford manufacturing history

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 Gary Firth's book Bradford and the Industrial Revolution takes its reader on a journey through time from a relatively settled rural sc...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

Leeds manufacturing history

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Leeds was a centre of wool manufacturing with most processes being outworked and the finishing and dying in the city. The skills in wool spr...
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