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

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

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

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...

Saturday, August 10, 2024

Wolverhampton Manufacturing History

Wolverhampton is said not to be in the Black Country (unlike the nearby chain making town of Dudley), rather it is surrounded by Black Coun...

Thursday, August 1, 2024

Coventry Manufacturing History

I write of the motor industry in How Britain Shaped the Manufacturing World (HBSTMW) and in three chapters of Vehicles to Vaccines : Volume...

Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Birmingham Manufacturing History

Britain's second city has been described as a city of a thousand trades and so quite different to Sheffield with its focus on steel, Man...

Saturday, July 13, 2024

Sheffield Manufacturing History

Sheffield was to steel as Manchester was to cotton and Leeds to wool. In the beginning it was the combination of fast flowing water and...

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