Manufacturing near me - What used to be made in your back yard

[winchman]

I forgot Vulcan down the road made steam, diesel then electric engines and bridges

 

[Parm]

This is just down the road from me

If you go back about 150 years then where i live the area as famous for lace making

 

[stuvy]

Funnily enough I was thinking about Bedford and the places I worked in the 80s, did a lot in the chocolate factory and had access to the seconds shop, soon got bored with it though! used to do a lot at a foundry where they made the big cast backbones for pianos, cant remember where it was now, Jordans Mill where they did the cereals and never ate cereal again after working there! some big old train repair places, the list was endless

We loved it as kids I was 2 until 5 I think when my mum worked there

My dad used to play bowls and they shut the company rink for housing a few years back

 

[Seadog]

Another Walthamstow one was Goss Springs, looks like they have relocated now, they used to be in Victoria rd E17

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manufacturer of quality springs and pressings including conical springs, torsion springs, extension springs, leaf springs, compression springs,precision springs and wire shapes

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They took over Spring Steel Productions on Fulbourne Road and then, when the council made a land grab on the factory, relocated around Epping, I seem to recall.

 

[graffian]

We loved it as kids I was 2 until 5 I think when my mum worked there

My dad used to play bowls and they shut the company rink for housing a few years back

Lots of boots made in factories around Bedford.
There was often a bloke in a pub car park in Wollaston selling Docs.

 

[stuvy]

Lots of boots made in factories around Bedford.
There was often a bloke in a pub car park in Wollaston selling Docs.

Northampton the next town is the boots and show making town

Wollaston is also in Northamptonshire

 

[Mikey D]

Shrewsbury where I used to live .....sentinel works ..... sentinel steam wagons , Was then rolls Royce engines ,then Perkins engines , these days caterpillar remaunfacturing . (Factory reconditioned engines ,Allso army landrover engines and diesel multiple unit train engines , (Perkins presumably )?
There was Allso silhouette bras factory in the town Finished in the 80's I think .

Live out in the sticks a bit now but nearby we have a tongue factory . I guess not too much demand for a tongue sandwich these days , so they do corned beef now as well

There is Allso a muller desert factory , which has previously being owned by various dairy companies over the years Eden vale etc

Clearview wood burners are a few miles away in the middle of nowhere manufacturing there excellent products

 

[droopsnoot]

I popped out to pick something up this morning once the predicted blizzard didn't turn up, and during a short trip along the local by-pass I saw a transporter containing seven local luxury cars, a value around £1m I think. Within the next mile I'd seen another two, so another £250k, on pre-delivery test drives. Someone at least seems to be busy, but quite a bit of their stuff is brought in and assembled locally - they don't make every last piece here any more.

 

[Parm]

Where I grew up in Hounslow, there was west Londons biggest asbestos factory

Beldam Asbestos Co. Ltd, Auto Klean Strainers Ltd

Beldam Asbestos Co. Ltd, Auto Klean Strainers Ltd, Lascar House, Waterloo Road (between Oil Street and Vandries Street), Liverpool L3, 2008 • Not Bedlam, but Beldam, whose main factory was in Houns…

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The site has now been remediated and turned into flats

 

[gaz1]

all our textile mills are gone in my area

even the brickyard has gone and they support under the blackpool tower

plentiful sources of coal, iron ore and soft water saw its rapid expansion as a manufacturer of textiles, especially wool

textile industry shifted in manufacturing towards emerging and developing countries like China who could undercut the UK industries thanks to low wages, lengthy working hours and untapped natural resources

coals and iron ore has gone

soft water well thats down to poor managment by yorkshire water and the privatisation of it

we have the dams or better known as we had the dams for good supply where we live we should never run out of water unless its sold or miss managed dams shut down never rebuilt all for cost cutting

Tractors and televisions were made in the city all gone

this what it says it has

the finance, chemical, electronics, engineering

electronics isnt worth bothering with its small select companies workforce only small
engineering is near on non existant

chemical the area is full of that but i can tell you this if anyone wants the bopal crap on your doorstep, your all welcome to it
its not welcomed here by the residents and we was never asked if we wanted it on our doorstep

 

[Parm]

all our textile mills are gone in my area

even the brickyard has gone and they support under the blackpool tower

plentiful sources of coal, iron ore and soft water saw its rapid expansion as a manufacturer of textiles, especially wool

textile industry shifted in manufacturing towards emerging and developing countries like China who could undercut the UK industries thanks to low wages, lengthy working hours and untapped natural resources

coals and iron ore has gone

soft water well thats down to poor managment by yorkshire water and the privatisation of it

we have the dams or better known as we had the dams for good supply where we live we should never run out of water unless its sold or miss managed dams shut down never rebuilt all for cost cutting

Tractors and televisions were made in the city all gone

this what it says it has

the finance, chemical, electronics, engineering

electronics isnt worth bothering with its small select companies workforce only small
engineering is near on non existant

chemical the area is full of that but i can tell you this if anyone wants the bopal crap on your doorstep, your all welcome to it
its not welcomed here by the residents and we was never asked if we wanted it on our doorstep

Your such a positive joy of energy

Will you follow with a YouTube ?

 

[bourbon]

I was born in Birmingham. City of a thousand trades. There are still loads there.

 

[gaz1]

I hate comments like this

Just because we don't build (as many) lathes, the UK is a world leader in manufacturing

One example I have recently been involved in

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The UK manufacturers many, many, many things. All too easy to bemoan that we don't send children into mills and up chimneys any more

what a lodge of rubbish most of our industry/tech is now abroad and if that statement was true we would have pulled out of a recession much more quickerr when the banks screwed up in 2008-2009

we had more industry in the past than we did in 2008 and we was on our knees then and only crawled out of a long recession that we never pulled out since 2008-9

British recessions: a short history

From boom to bust after the first world war and 20% inflation under Margaret Thatcher, we have faced economic hardship before

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im sorry but if you think we can pull out of recession on the basis of londons data ( digital (digital industry, digital by default ) ) then your dreaming as much as those running the country

its been tried it failed misrebly after the bank crash we never fully pulled out of that recession and south shoring up peoples homes so they didnt crash the housing market also had another effect as well all caused by the banks mishanderling of the loans

the virus, the ultimate crash of the worlds systems we are now back in a long recession

 

[Parm]

what a lodge of rubbish most of our industry/tech is now abroad and if that statement was true we would have pulled out of a recession much more quickerr when the banks screwed up in 2008-2009

Hang on a minute

I’m all into evidence based discussion

As far as I’m aware your a builder, works in peoples homes, where they make tea

I’ve spent the last 30 years working in other people’s factories, where we make some interesting things

You are so utterly wrong

 

[northwest]

Hurco mills are at least partially built in High Wycombe, I had a look around the other week. Mazak have a site in Coventry where they assemble machines too, haven't got to visit that one yet though.

Price though and that is often themake or break of a business, I know, we all know it won't last as long and won't be as well built but it can make or break a business profitability.

 

[Kayos]

what a lodge of rubbish most of our industry/tech is now abroad and if that statement was true we would have pulled out of a recession much more quickerr when the banks screwed up in 2008-2009

we had more industry in the past than we did in 2008 and we was on our knees then and only crawled out of a long recession that we never pulled out since 2008-9

British recessions: a short history

From boom to bust after the first world war and 20% inflation under Margaret Thatcher, we have faced economic hardship before

www.theguardian.com

im sorry but if you think we can pull out of recession on the basis of londons data ( digital (digital industry, digital by default ) ) then your dreaming as much as those running the country

its been tried it failed misrebly after the bank crash we never fully pulled out of that recession and south shoring up peoples homes so they didnt crash the housing market also had another effect as well all caused by the banks mishanderling of the loans

the virus, the ultimate crash of the worlds systems we are now back in a long recession

Seriously Gaz, I could list 20 UK manufacturers without a second thought

We design and build high quality and specialised stuff, we are world leaders.

 

[Parm]

Near me

They used to make all the metallic trim for high end cars, closed down when the industry moved to chromed plastic

It’s now a housing estate

Pianoforte Supplies Ltd, Roade, Northamptonshire

It all began in 1910, when a firm known as 'J. Masters & Co' began manufacturing polishing paste along the railway tracks that run past the village of road. In 1922 the business closed and was purchased the following year by a former employee, C.T Cripps, who went to produce castings and...

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[Mick Annick]

I was born in Birmingham. City of a thousand trades. There are still loads there.

Was certainly still true when I worked in Digbeth, I could and did get allsorts made within a mile of our place.

 

[Brad93]

Colchester had Colchester lathes obviously, pattern making, foundry, grinding, toolmaking, paint shop.

But also Paxman diesels in Colchester, now gone, bought out and asset stripped by MAN. Managed to buy a few bits from there at auction.

The guys gave me the run down, MAN bought paxman, tried to move production to one of their other factories in the uk, basically failed, they couldn't produce a decent engine, so production went back to colchester at massive cost because they'd let staff and equipment go, they carried on for a few more years before deciding to phase out the paxman unit and replace it with a MAN power plant. One of the guys had worked there for 58 years

 

[Parm]

I was born in Birmingham. City of a thousand trades. There are still loads there.

My favorite experience of Birmingham trades are all the nice factories in the jewlerry quarter doing all the enamel car badges and trophies