British Manufacturing History

Vehicles to Vaccines published 4 December 2023

December 4, 2023 — 0 Comments

Snippets of interest

Inward investment

November 25, 2023 — 0 Comments

Whatever Happened to British Manufacturing

Vehicles to Vaccines – a working draft

October 8, 2023 — 0 Comments

Snippets of interest

Manufacturing timeline by decade post 1951

September 3, 2023 — 0 Comments

Snippets of interest

Government intervention for manufacturing

July 1, 2023 — 0 Comments

Snippets of interest

Speaking at SPARK Lincoln

June 13, 2023 — 0 Comments

Snippets of interest

Aluminium and hydroelectric power

May 26, 2023

Snippets of interest

Spark Festival Lincoln

May 24, 2023 — 0 Comments

Snippets of interest

The Festival of Britain 1951 – as a pivotal event

May 11, 2023 — 1 Comment

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 […]