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When the Steel Town Boomed

Jim Riley

3rd August 2009

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A fascinating 4 minute journey into the history of steel-making from Panorama…

The 1960’s were a boom period for steel manufacturing in the UK and steel towns like Scunthorpe enjoyed the relative post-War prosperity that demand for steel brought. In this clip, a Panorama reporter takes a tour round Scunthorpe to highlight the rapid economic and social change that the boom brought.

One option for students would be to compare and contrast the 1960’s clip with a much more recent resource on the decline of the Corus steel plant in Scunthorpe.

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Jim Riley

Jim co-founded tutor2u alongside his twin brother Geoff! Jim is a well-known Business writer and presenter as well as being one of the UK's leading educational technology entrepreneurs.

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