By Liam Speck

 Primary production is the sourcing and harvesting of the raw materials used for secondary production. For example mining for oil to be used as fuel, catching fish to be processed into food, Cattle which is farmed to be slaughtered or farmed for milk.  For example crude oil could be drilled from the earth by BP and then it will be shipped to a refinery.  A local example is some lime being extracted from the Singleton Birch quarry in Barnetby.

 Secondary is where the raw materials gathered from the primary production companies are manufactured and processed into the products which will be sold to the paying public. Computers, cars, bread, roads are just some examples of products that are assembled and constructed via secondary production companies.  To carry on the previous example the crude oil is processed into petroleum at the CONOCO Refinery in Killinghome.  A national example could be wheat being transported to one of Warbutons factory to be turned into bread.

 Tertiary is the distribution, advertising, storage and selling of the products created and assembled via secondary production phase.  Carrying on the example the petrol is then stored inside a petrol tanker and delivered to the Murco petrol station in Grimsby Road Cleethorpes. Which will then be purchased by the paying public to be used to power their cars.  The aforementioned bread will be shipped to various shops all over the country

 During the industrial revolution most of the Uk was employed in the Secondary sector (44%).  It was supported by a primary sector accounting for 33% of the workers which would be supplying materials for the secondary sector or feeding its workforce through crops, meat and fish.

 Today the UK has less of a reliance on producing it’s own machinery and appliances. Since WW2 the primary and secondary sectors have been in decline  During the Industrial Revolution 33% worked in services, today that figure is 81%.