Middlesbrough: exploring the ‘least resilient’ place in the UK

The former ICI refinery looms large in Boro’s surviving industrial strip.

Source: Laura Oldfield Ford

Patchy attempts to revive post-industrial towns are producing unsettling results in Teeside, one of Britain’s most blighted regions

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