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.

Monday, April 13, 2026

The railway men - George and Robert Stephenson

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George Stephenson was born in 1781 into a mining community just inland of Newcastle near Wylam on the Tyne where his father worked as a fire...
Monday, April 6, 2026

West Country engine builders- Newcomen and Trevithick

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 The West Country, Cornwall in particular, was where deep mines were first sunk, in search of metals rather than coal. The problem with dept...
Wednesday, April 1, 2026

East Anglia manufacturing history

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 A predominantly agricultural region with historically a heritage of farm equipment manufacture. The presence of one of the world's top ...
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