Barnsley is South Yorkshire's coal capital — a town whose identity was forged in the collieries of the Dearne and Don valleys, whose pit communities built a culture of solidarity,...
Blackpool is England's most tenacious seaside resort — a place that survived the railway age, the package holiday, cheap flights to Spain and every economic downturn the 20th century threw...
York is England's most perfectly preserved medieval city — Viking streets, Roman walls and a Gothic Minster that has dominated the skyline for eight centuries. But beneath the heritage tourism...
Swansea was Copperopolis — the city that processed more copper than anywhere else on earth in the 19th century, whose Lower Swansea Valley was described by contemporaries as the most...
Sunderland was the shipbuilding capital of the world — a city that launched more ships than any other in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, whose riverbanks on the Wear were...
Wolverhampton is the Black Country's capital — a city built on locks, safes, bicycles, steel and the industrial ingenuity of the West Midlands workforce that supplied the world with manufactured...
Doncaster is South Yorkshire's railway and coal town — a city shaped by the LNER's locomotive works at Carr, the South Yorkshire coalfield's easternmost pits and the agricultural market heritage...
Bradford was the wool capital of the world — the city that processed more wool than anywhere else on earth in the Victorian era, whose merchant princes built Italianate warehouses...
Swindon is the Great Western Railway's city — built almost entirely around Isambard Kingdom Brunel's locomotive works and the model railway village that housed the GWR workforce. Its abandoned places...
Stockport sits on the edge of Manchester — a mill town of extraordinary Victorian hat-making heritage, the largest WWII air raid shelter network in England carved into the red sandstone...
Peterborough is a city built on three things — a Norman cathedral, the Victorian Great Northern Railway and the brick-making industry that used the Jurassic Oxford Clay of the Nene...
Preston is one of Lancashire's great cotton towns — a city that grew on the textile industry, the railways and the docks of the River Ribble that connected it to...
