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.

Sunday, February 15, 2026

Northern Ireland manufacturing history

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 The traditional manufacturing industry in the six counties was linen. However, the presence in Belfast of Harland & Wolff underlines th...
Thursday, February 12, 2026

Northwest England manufacturing history

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 The climate of the north west leant itself to the spinning and weaving of cotton. Later chemicals, electrical engineering and glass fixed t...
Tuesday, February 3, 2026

Manufacturing in the West Midlands

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 The home of the metal basher, the Black Country, but also the city of a thousand small workshops. The image is of the Cadbury sports pavili...
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