Thanks to The Register, here is a nice graph of the decline of manufacturing in the UK since 1945. You'll notice one small problem with the "decline" bit.
British industry has always tended towards high-value high-tech manufacturing -- ships, motorcycles, cars, aircraft etc.
All the industry where I was brought up concerned the entire process of taking raw cotton and turning it into clothes, not particularly high value, though it was high tech in its time. Yorkshire did the same with wool. That industry died out in the 1980s rather suddenly.
Bombardier still use the Shorts plant to make parts, and we do dominate the "building Formula One cars" sector ;-)
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Date: 2010-02-22 06:12 pm (UTC)All the industry where I was brought up concerned the entire process of taking raw cotton and turning it into clothes, not particularly high value, though it was high tech in its time. Yorkshire did the same with wool. That industry died out in the 1980s rather suddenly.
Bombardier still use the Shorts plant to make parts, and we do dominate the "building Formula One cars" sector ;-)