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  • From Flickr: “Fitting breech blocks at the Elswick Works” by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

    Women workers fitting breech blocks in 5 Shop, Elswick Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2 December 1942 (TWAM ref. DX1529/1). ‘Workshop of the World’ is a phrase often used to describe Britain’s manufacturing dominance during the Nineteenth Century. It’s also a very apt description for the Elswick Works and Scotswood Works of Vickers Armstrong and its…

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  • From Flickr: “Fitting breech blocks at the Elswick Works” by Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

    Women workers fitting breech blocks in 5 Shop, Elswick Works, Newcastle upon Tyne, 2 December 1942 (TWAM ref. DX1529/1). ‘Workshop of the World’ is a phrase often used to describe Britain’s manufacturing dominance during the Nineteenth Century. It’s also a very apt description for the Elswick Works and Scotswood Works of Vickers Armstrong and its…

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  • From Flickr: “Bantam A 3” by uk vintage

    1950; Main Street Merchant by Norman Beasley. Unknown Artist. This is the story of James Cash Penney who build from a one-room store in a Western mining town to more than 1,600 stores in 48 states and became the largest retail department store chain in the World. Penny’s business ideas and ideals still remain the…

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  • From Flickr: “Bantam A 3” by uk vintage

    1950; Main Street Merchant by Norman Beasley. Unknown Artist. This is the story of James Cash Penney who build from a one-room store in a Western mining town to more than 1,600 stores in 48 states and became the largest retail department store chain in the World. Penny’s business ideas and ideals still remain the…

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Paul Sedra

Historian of Modern Egypt