Britain’s manufacturing force may soon disappear

Britain’s manufacturing force may soon disappear

Britain’s dwindling band of industrial and manufacturing workers will likely remain unhymned.

Britain tends to measure out its modern history in wars and their last survivors, from the Somme to D-day. But its now dwindling band of industrial and manufacturing workers will likely remain unhymned.

Imagining the past is the business of the historian and the historical novelist, but sometimes the past springs more readily to life at the sight of something small and ephemeral with nothing – no other mind – standing between you and it.