the history of black country architecture - the thatcher years

The heart of Black Country architecture lies in the Industrial Revolution but there is little doubt the one person who exerted more influence over it than any other is Margaret Thatcher. Under her Prime Ministerial stewardship the factory gates were locked, the windows were boarded, barbed wire went up and the buildings sank into slow and inevitable decay.

Yet even amongst the decay there can be found both the seeds of new growth and the beauty of a forgotten world.