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Changing Places - Blackpool: A Forgotten Town
27th December 2017
Blackpool rose to prominence with the Industrial Revolution and started to fall behind with the rise of cheap airlines and the structural decline of the domestic tourist industry.
In this discussion we see some of the key data charts on the changing economic, social and demographic profile of Blackpool. Soaring antidepressant usage and falling life expectancy are just a few of the problems facing UK coastal towns like Blackpool.
Geoff Riley
Geoff Riley FRSA has been teaching Economics for over thirty years. He has over twenty years experience as Head of Economics at leading schools. He writes extensively and is a contributor and presenter on CPD conferences in the UK and overseas.
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