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.

Friday, January 3, 2025

Consett manufacturing history

There is evidence of metalurgical activity in the Derwent valley in County Durham from early times. There was a rich deposit of coal under...

Sunderland manufacturing history

As a port on the Wear, Sunderland grew from handling exports of coal from the Northumberland coal field. Coal went to London and the southwe...

Thursday, January 2, 2025

Newcastle and Gateshead manfacturing history

Coal was at the heart of the economy of Tyneside which, with its long navigable estuary, was able to ship many of the millions of tons prod...

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