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Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 26,550 Send Message	Gee	Report	15 Aug 2015 18:28
	Maybe because the media seem apt at showing the footage from the days of the industrial north I live in South Yorkshire, I have a buzzing cosmopolitan city a walk away and the Peaks a 5 minute drive away Gods County :-)
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Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 16,020 Send Message	Sharron	Report	15 Aug 2015 17:18
	I didn't ever go up north until I was twenty and just caught it looking like it had been through an industrial revolution. One powerful memory is the smell of sulphur which started at Bedford, coming from the Stewartby Brickworks I believe, and hung in the air all the way to Leeds where I was delivering. The next time I went, no more than eight years later, the air was clean and all the blackened buildings were back to their pristine sandstone. I was thinking, when we went to Wales this week, that I had not ever seen the valleys when they were industrial. I first went to Wales about twenty years ago when there were only a couple of mines left so I missed the winding gear and spoil heaps. It would have been good to see the contrast.