Is anything good still maufactured in this country?

[Robert Poste's Child]

To be fair, we still produce some pretty good food - smoked salmon, cheese, meat, game, fruit etc and their products. They may sometimes be more expensive than the imported stuff in the supermarkets, but still within the reach of most people even if you only have them as an occasional treat.

[SLad]

Beautiful silk lined hats by a Camberwell based company. www.chidora.co.uk

[triumph]

Aren't all the Formula One cars made in this country?

[Mustard]

Barbour, making clothing for 120 years in the North East.

[????]

We are the second biggest car manufacturer in Europe

We are global players in aerospace, pharmaceuticals and erm, arms

We are creating a tech hub in App development only behind Silicon Valley

We have a renaissance in specialist and high end film production and have global expertise in many animation/special effects

We are developing expertise in some very new materials technology graphene etc

We export our TV formats and ideas globally

We are actually doing quite well in a large number of high value growth areas in manufacturing and in many of these 'creative manufacturing' areas

We have also of course still have a ginormous service sector that adds massive value including global leadership in many financial services and related high value areas ( boo hiss from stage left)

...what we don,t have any more is half a million plus miners doing dirty dangeorous jobs producing high pollutant energy, 200,000 in producing steel, a global commodity, or half a million in shipbuilding or dockers.

We aren't doing that bad

[KidKruger]

Wallace & Grommit.

Sorted.

[david_carnell]

I think men's shoes are much better catered for. Northampton is still the centre of Britannia's sole.

Loakes

Grensons

Trickers

Crockett and Jones

Barkers

Altberg hiking boots

It's mostly higher end stuff that carries a premium price because few people think like you RPC and simply want cheap and disposable. It's a consumer issue as much as a manufacturing one.

[Robert Poste's Child]

???? Wrote:

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> We are the second biggest car manufacturer in

> Europe

> We are global players in aerospace,

> pharmaceuticals and erm, arms

> We are creating a tech hub in App development only

> behind Silicon Valley

> We have a renaissance in specialist and high end

> film production and have global expertise in many

> animation/special effects

> We are developing expertise in some very new

> materials technology graphene etc

> We export our TV formats and ideas globally

> We are actually doing quite well in a large number

> of high value growth areas in manufacturing and in

> many of these 'creative manufacturing' areas

> We have also of course still have a ginormous

> service sector that adds massive value including

> global leadership in many financial services and

> related high value areas ( boo hiss from stage

> left)

>

>

> ...what we don,t have any more is half a million

> plus miners doing dirty dangeorous jobs producing

> high pollutant energy, 200,000 in producing steel,

> a global commodity, or half a million in

> shipbuilding or dockers.

>

> We aren't doing that bad

Think that's stretching it a bit - I was talking more about tangible stuff that ordinary people use day to day and which twenty or thirty years ago could be relied on to be decent quality, and how some brands now seem sell 'Britishness' as an associated idea rather than British materials or workmanship. M&S is an example - the women's clothes on the whole aren't much better quality than you might find on a market stall. Perhaps it's partly partly the Primark / TK Maxx effect, I don't know.

I like the Barbour example; I didn't know they were all still made here.

[Mustard]

There is a company called Calzeat in Scotland that makes scarves, and other textiles. There are also a number of Welsh companies making blankets, one is Melin Tregwynt.

[Jah Lush]

Not in England then.

[Mustard]

The OP asked for British made goods.

[Loz]

Mostly, the world doesn't care for quality. They want cheap. Britain, with its wage levels, cannot compete on that business paradigm.

Blame Maggie if you like, but it was above and beyond even her changes.

[steveo]

Savile Row suits,

Harris Tweed,

Scotch whisky,

London gins,

kilts,

Kendal mint cake,

Bath Oliver biscuits,

Dunmow meats,

Mulberry (some of it),

Triumph and Norton motorcycles

Marmite

[Seabag]

I bought my "made in England" Grenson boots the other day

Fekk tho cost wise, just shy of ?400

The last pair I had for near 20 years

I'm hoping these ones see me through

[El Pibe]

Well it was my mate's dad who was head of the design team for the main platform (which was made here...errr there, in the UK) for the Rosetta mission. We should be pretty proud of that, huge British input. He's retired now, shows how long these things take.

Here's a photo he took, 15 years ago!!!

She (my friend) lives in Oz now in case that vodafone thingy is confusing.

[Seabag]

Cookson & Clegg

http://www.cooksonclegg.com/product.html

They made a lot of the Katherine Hammnett clothing, and more recently jeans for the Japanese denim brand 'Edwins'

All top end, and priced accordingly

[steveo]

Forget your sophisticated space projects, this is the benchmark that all British products should be measured against.

The 24 Carat gold vape stick

http://goldstriker.co.uk/e-cigarette/

[david_carnell]

RPC - not sure if it's your style but http://www.old-town.co.uk/ do, imo, marvellous British workwear of a pre-war ethos.

I have some of their stuff and it's bomb proof.

Hiut Denim in Wales is another great micro-maker of top quality.

[jimbo1964]

Three of my favourite things:

http://www.johnlobb.com/uk/models

https://www.naimaudio.com/products

http://www.merciancycles.co.uk/

[steveo]

The UK's biggest export. Who'd have thought it?

Pearls, gems, precious metals and coins: ?58,544,016,505 (18 per cent of total exports)

[Jeremy]

steveo Wrote:

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> Pearls, gems, precious metals and coins:

> ?58,544,016,505 (18 per cent of total exports)

This is probably mainly due to people selling off reserves of bullion... it's not like we're exporting huge amounts of jewels or anything.

[ultraburner]

SSL mixing desks. Quite a bit of hi-end pro audio in general.

Orange Cycles, the expensive models are hand-welded in Halifax.

[Robert Poste's Child]

david_carnell Wrote:

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> RPC - not sure if it's your style but

> http://www.old-town.co.uk/ do, imo, marvellous

> British workwear of a pre-war ethos.

>

> I have some of their stuff and it's bomb proof.

>

Thanks. I could see myself wearing one or two of these in the right fabric.

Just remembered another great one: http://www.johnsmedley.com/

[miga]

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[Jeremy]

Tannoy and Celestion still manufacturer their premium products in UK.