G.B. ENGLAND. Sandwell, The West Midlands. Known as 'The Black Country'. Peter Marlow photographed the many closed down foundaries and engineering industries and titled the project 'Closed Down Britain'. During this dramatic era of the severe decline of traditional manufacturing industry in the area Marlow took workers back to their old places of work inside now derelict plants.

Hilda Jones today. Photographed in the core shop of now closed Hale and Hale plant. She is standing at her old workplace, roughly in the same place as the old photo, MAP1983026K015

1983