DIGEST: GLOBEMAKING IN LONDON, A VISIT TO CROCKETT & JONES IN NORTHAMPTON, KENNETH GRANGE

Peter Bellerby - The Globemaker from Cabnine on Vimeo.

Above, a fascinating look into Bellerby & Co. Globemakers in Stoke Newington, north London (via Huh Magazine)

At the Kodak factory in Harrow (Marko & Placemakers)

A visit to Bespoked, a bike show in Bristol (Umbrella Magazine)

Canteen restaurant furniture makers Very Good & Proper interview (Port Magazine)

Behind the scenes at Linton Tweed in Carlisle (Jigsaw)

At Crockett & Jones in Northampton (Make it British)

A David Mellor day out, with biographic notes (Manchester Modernist Society)

A visit to Downing Street: is the government doing enough to support small British manufacturing businesses? (Make it British)

In discussion with Kenneth Grange, talking trains, TX1s and The Killing (Port Magazine)

A short documentary about the recovery of a Victorian press (Tom Stokes)

British made denim: Fallow, Albam, Hiut and Tender (The Chic Geek)

Events:

The New Craftsmen have a few events going on at London Design Festival, from the 17th - 21st September

A pottery trail in Cornwall, from mid-late September (Leach Pottery)

DIGEST: LAST UK BUTTON MANUFACTURER CLOSES, MOULTON, SIR KENNETH GRANGE, FACTORY VISITS

Great designers in the news:

Alex Moulton, engineer and designer, passed away earlier this month (Dezeen)

Kenneth Grange knighted (BBC)

Factory visits:

A visit to the Gloverall factory in Wellingborough (Proper Mag)

Inside the Private White V.C. factory (Cool Hunting)

At bicycle component manufacturer Royce, in Hampshire (Headset Press)

Steve Salter visits the Sunspel factory in Long Eaton (Port Magazine)

News items:

The shock collapse of the last British button manufacturer (Halesowen News)

Why are British factories turning away business? (Make it British)

Raspberry PI and the UK manufacturing resurgence (Wired)

On livery companies: British institutions (FT)

On skills shortages among young workers (Economist)

A piano maker tells of Thatcher's impact on UK piano manufacturing (Port Magazine)

Ale and cider:

The history of cider in the UK (Hot Rum Cow, ps 13-16)

Britain's lost breweries and beers (The Good Stuff)

Event:

David Hieatt (of Hiut Denim) to talk in London on Tuesday 15th January (YCN)

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Photo of Moulton bike from Dezeen

MOULTON BICYCLES: MADE IN ENGLAND

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GF Smith's 'Beauty in the Making' show (Protein)

Patrick Grant on Savile Row and Abercrombie & Fitch (GQ)

Tom Dixon design talks (Nowness)

Photos of the Doxford engine factory (Retronaut)

A video on 'How a Bicycle is Made' (British Council)

A visit to John Smedley in Derbyshire (Cherchbi)

On Trunki's move to manufacture its children's suitcases in the UK (Channel 4)

Manufacturing returning to the UK (Telegraph)

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Photo from Retronaut

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Short film on British Design in 2012, promoting the recently opened exhibition at the V&A (OEN)

Interview with Bristol based bike frame builder Robin Mather (Rapha)

Buying British (Guardian)

Olympic torch wins Design of the Year award (Creative Review)

Airbus and Boeing boosted by passenger jet boom (Telegraph)

Inside a Glaswegian letterpress (Form Fifty Five via It's Nice That)

Creatives are manufacturers (Computer Arts)

BT to sell off iconic K6 phoneboxes (FT)

Interview with furniture designer Michael Marriott (Spitalfields Life)

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Photo of Michael Marriott from Spitalfields Life

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Audio slideshows of British bike builders: Tom Donhou, Sam Humpheson, Rourke Cycles and Ricky Feather (Rapha)

A film on Lincolnshire furniture maker Sebastian Cox (OEN)

Equal Rights for Design campaign (Make it British)

The British Are Coming! Featuring E Tautz, Turnbull & Asser and Alfred Dunhill (WSJ)

Some pictures (by Koto Bolofo) of the factory where Margaret Howell gets her shirts made (Margaret Howell)

Speaking of Howell, an article from 2007 which talks about her home and its aesthetic (Independent)

Luggage company Globe-Trotter featured on the radio (at 38mins) (M24)

A sadly predictable story of the British beer situation at the Olympics (SIBA)

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The umbrella maker, the dairyman and the bag seller (Spitalfields Life)

Tim Little of Grenson interview (Rapha)

Little also features in this piece on the 'resurgence' of British made shoes (Telegraph)

Succinct overview on the history of Leicester's Pantherella sock company (Tweed Pig)

The BBC spent budget day in a well known bicycle factory in the Midlands (Pashley)

Meanwhile, a Bath based brewer gives his reaction to Osborne's beer duty rise (SIBA)

Rapha to work with six British bike frame builders on the UK Continental (Rapha)

Trunki, the brand of wheeled suitcases for children, is to move its manufacturing to Britain (Bristol Business News)

An informative piece on Falmouth's furniture designers and makers (Telegraph)

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Photograph by Colin O'Brien for Spitalfields Life

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The week's stories on UK manufacturing and design:

Once Was England visits Church's factory in Northampton

Lotus cuts jobs at Norfolk factory

James Dyson's favourite design of all time is the Moulton bicycle

Port magazine goes where M&I has been before; Sunspel's factory in Long Eaton

The Manufacturer ponders the 'revival of made in Britain'

The Made in Britain blog talks socks

And finally, House of Hackney gets some nice coverage on WSJ

Photo from Once Was England