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, June 7, 2025

Banbury manufacturing history

A market town in an agricultural county, it is perhaps not surprising that Banbury's first venture into engineering manufacturing was i...

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

Stourbridge manufacturing history

Wool was the business of Stourbridge as it was for a great deal of the kingdom from the thirteenth to seventeenth centuries. Yet it was not...

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