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Arts > Photo > 20th, 21st century > UK > Steven McCoy
Skelmersdale in 1984: ‘an almost comically perfect example of failed utopia’.
Photograph: Stephen McCoy
Ballads for Lancashire's lost utopia The Guardian Sunday 22 May 2016 15.41 BST
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/22/
Steven McCoy
Using a 5x4 view camera he produced photographs of the residents and landscape of Skelmersdale.
Skelmersdale was designated a "New Town"in 1961, designed to house overspill populations from the north Merseyside conurbation.
With the economic downturn in the late 1970s large industrial employers left the town en masse, resulting in an increase in crime, drug abuse and poverty. https://www.mccoywynne.co.uk/archive/skelmersdale.aspx - broken link
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/may/22/
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