British Manufacturing History – Page 2 – How manufacturing shaped Britain. Why manufacturing spread across the country, how it grew, why it declined and what was left.

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Manufacturing places

London as a manufacturing place

September 8, 2026 — 1 Comment

Manufacturing places

The Thames shipbuilders

September 8, 2026 — 2 Comments

Leaders in manufacturing

Oliver Lucas and Peter Bennett – Lucas

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New Book – How Manufacturing Shaped Britain

September 2, 2026 — 3 Comments

Leaders in manufacturing

Allen, John and Michael Clark – Plessey

August 31, 2026 — 1 Comment

Whatever Happened to British Manufacturing

Keys to British manufacturing success at SPARK Lincoln

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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

Snippets of interest

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The Great Country Houses of Britain – who built them

In the Elizabeth, Jacobean and Palladian periods the great families such as the Cecils at Burghley and the Cavendishes at Chatsworth hired master craftsmen such as Robert Smythson and Willliam Etty to manage teams of stonemasons, brick-makers and carpenters. Bess of Harwick is reputed to have built a village to house the many craftsmen and […]

Transport and Transport Buildings

The largely landlocked Persian Empire built and maintained the Silk Road(s) long before Rome was even thought of. Herodotus observed that a road of 1600 miles could be travelled in seven days. Being landlocked, the sea was not an alternative although perhaps rivers were. Britain, as an island, offered places near to the coast a […]

Military building

Castles My story of British buildings before the Elizabethan age is one of internal conflict. The ancient British tribes would fight each other. The long line of invaders would terrify the local population. The response though wasn’t with castles, but, as I write in my piece on Early England, with burghs promoted by the king […]

The Building of Central Ordnance Depot – Old Dalby

In the Second World War, Central Ordnance depots around Britain ensured that the army, anywhere in the world, was supplied with the armaments and vehicles they needed. This link is to a map of where they were. The work of the depots is described in more detail in this link. Chilwell near Nottingham had become […]

The Development of Church Architecture from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries

The period from the 16th to the 19th centuries saw the birth of the modern world out of its medieval womb. The Church was at the centre of the start of this process but in the eyes of many was by the end moving to the sidelines. A comprehensive description of the development of church […]