The budget this week saw Philip Hammond dwell on the UK’s blight of low productivity. But a new factory at Orgreave gives reason for hopeBritain isn’t yet an industrial wasteland. The traveller on the train from St Pancras to Yorkshire can certainly see evidence of abandoned production: the water-filled hollows that once supplied Bedfordshire’s brickworks with clay; the distant outlines of the considerable airship sheds at Cardington, built when that mode of travel had a future; the eroding embankment of a mineral line that once took ironstone from the Northampton quarries to the smelters at Scunthorpe. Related: The UK has the most regionally unbalanced economy in Europe. Time for change Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk