can remember having a discussion about wire drawing and and tube forming with a visitor at the museum I volunteer at.....next time I saw him, he told me that he got a parking ticket due to the length of the conversation
I used to design control systems that were built in Oxfordshire. We still manufacture stuff here, just not useless tat, more along the lines of useful stuff
Edit: I only stopped in January and the company still designs and builds 'stuff'