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, November 29, 2025

East London manufacturing history 19th and 20th centuries

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  Docklands The first decade of the nineteenth century saw an expansion in docks which would guarantee London's position as the wor...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

South London manufacturing history

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 The south bank of the Thames and the rivers flowing into it, the Wandle and Neckinger, attracted industries needing ready transport for raw...
Friday, November 21, 2025

East London manufacturing history

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 Writing of London in the Nineteenth Century , Jerry White remarks on the large proportion of the population – some 30% - who made things, c...
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