The industrial north developed during the latter half nineteenth century when Britain was the most advanced economy in the Coal mining, shipbuilding and marine engineering were the major growth industries. The peak North achievement was in the years before the First World War; export of coal at record levels, the launching of the 'Mauretania' with its turbine engine, the growth of the power generating industry Parson's and the vast production of armaments on Scotswood Road.
Post-war unemployment
international recession brought with of staple markets in wages i employment. The North manufacturing base has never really : recovered.
But both the programme rationalisation by the Government in 1945 and the regional both parties since have had the same effect. They have allowed the bosses and bankers pull -unprofitable, declining that would need massive investment bie, and they
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