Leaders in manufacturing – British Manufacturing History

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Leaders in manufacturing

Giants of British Manufacturing

October 26, 2026 — 0 Comments

Leaders in manufacturing

Alastair Pilkington – Pilkington and float glass

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Leaders in manufacturing

The Weston Family – Associated British Food

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Leaders in manufacturing

Jaguar and Land Rover – an unlikely pairing?

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Leaders in manufacturing

Sir Arnold Hall – Hawker Siddeley

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Oliver Lucas and Peter Bennett – Lucas

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Leaders in manufacturing

Allen, John and Michael Clark – Plessey

August 31, 2026 — 1 Comment

Leaders in manufacturing

Guglielmo Marconi and some notable successors

August 24, 2026 — 2 Comments

Leaders in manufacturing

The Ferranti Spirit

August 17, 2026 — 2 Comments

Leaders in manufacturing

The Quaker manufacturers

August 10, 2026 — 2 Comments

Building with Glass

Glass makers in the area of Sussex surrounding Chiddingfofd took advantage of the wood available in the Weald, the sand under foot and the bracken growing each spring to borrow making skills from France and produced the glass needed for the great English cathedrals in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. They were not alone for […]

Building in brick

Brick has been used in building for millenia, dating back certainly to ancient Egypt. During the four centuries of Roman occupation of Britain it is thought that many millions of bricks were made, a technique forgotten in the Dark Ages, but rediscovered in the early Middle Ages. Colchester Castle holds the Roman memory being built […]

Building in stone

Stone was the preserve of the well to do, of churches and of castles. An exception was the northern isles where on Orkney stone was used for communal dwellings, because trees struggled to grow in the fierce winter gales. Buildings dating back 2,500 years remain standing, although uninhabited. The Broch of Mousa on Shetland (the […]

Building in wood

By the time of the Domesday Book, only about fifteen percent of England was wooded, with oak being the most common tree. Oak was a popular building material being strong and easy to work when green and incredibly hard once the sap had gone. Houses were built with green oak which would then shrink, locking […]

Roman Building

Roman architecture stands out because of the variety of materials used and structures built, but most of all because modern building from the Renaissance onward looked to Rome for both theoretical and practical ideas. There are two places to look for this inheritance: the writings of Vitruvius and the remains of Pompey. I am accompanied […]