A RELATIVE DECLINE…….The Slow Descent Of Great Britain’s Manufacturing Might.

The Good Year tyre factory, Wolverhampton. ©Richard Bailey

Over the years of travelling around the country for work, I had noticed that a lot of factories were being closed down and being replaced by shopping centres or housing estates. I wondered what all the factory workers went on to do. Did they get another job, were they happy in their new jobs, why did the factory close and what was happening to the old…