One knife-maker, based in Sheffield, a city famed for its knife-making since the 14th Century when many mills dotted along the banks of the city’s fast-flowing rivers and streams were converted from milling flour to grinding blades using the local millstone grit as grindstones, is preserving...
A new 'minimill' aimed at producing 1.65Mt/y of merchant slab by the DR1-EAF route to supply the Great Lakes area integrated mills which are currently importing over 6Mt of slab a year is at an advanced stage of planning. Raw materials are assured, with ore supplied by reopening the ...
first in simple weavers cottages and then in mechanised ‘manufactories’, utilising local textile labourers as well as newly settled silk weavers arriving from East London; Spitalfields in the case ofStephen Walters & Sons. You could say that the English ‘silk road’ has...