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ELLADUKE11 FEB 08, 2021 02:50PM

9 – Ghost Towns  after photos

What was it like to live in an industrial town ravaged by
Thatcher’s economic policies’? Can you nd us pictural evidence
and personal testimonies of existing through the destruction of
a community?  

Ghost town titles

ghost towns
There's no comin' home
I still miss you
There's no goin' home
if you can, let it go

Plan
What I will include:
~Images after photos
~video
~de nition
~facts about the time error

Order
~ Start with questions that they will have to answer in the chat
box, this is to get them interesting and to see who is listening. 
~ De nition of what it is, with photos
~ context about that time era 
~ How is it similar to us now? COVID
~ Show a video of the the specials song
~ go into the rolling stones song

Context before photos

~ In 1979 Thatcher was elected Prime Minister of the UK.
~ rst female Prime Minister 

The Impact
 ~ The main impact of her rst term was economic. Inheriting a
weak economy, she reduced or eliminated some governmental
regulations and subsidies to businesses, thereby purging the
manufacturing industry of many inef cient rms. The result was
a dramatic increase in unemployment, from 1.3 million in 1979 to
more than double that gure two years later. At the same time,
in ation doubled in just 14 months, to more than 20 percent, and
manufacturing output fell sharply. Although in ation decreased
and output rose before the end of her rst term, unemployment
continued to increase, reaching more than three million in 1986.
 The Rolling stones made a song in 2020 called 'Living in a ghost
town' which is about Covid and how people are living in a ghost
town and what it feels like for us. In the music video they take us
though London in speed and it is so interesting idea because
they sing about stuff that they are singing so it is very vistual.

The Rolling Stones - Living In A Ghost Town

before photos by TheRollingStonesVEVO
YOUTUBE

About the band and how they 'defined the

era'
The Specials: How Ghost Town de ned an era - BBC News

~ released 20th June 1981 against a backdrop of rising

unemployment, unease and menace took on an entirely new
meaning when Britain's streets erupted into rioting almost three
weeks later
~ But, clearly, it expressed the mood of the early days of
Thatcher's Britain for many. "It was clear that something was
before photos very, very, wrong," the song's writer, Jerry Dammers, has said.
~ "When I think about Ghost Town I think about Coventry," says
Specials drummer John Bradbury, who grew up in the city. "I saw
it develop from a boom town, my family doing very well, through
to the collapse of the industry and the bottom falling out of
family life. Your economy is destroyed and, to me, that's what
Ghost Town is about."

Why The Specials recorded Ghost Town - Radio X

Covid-19 and ghost towns?

We have been lockdown in the UK 3 times and this is where you
don't leave your house unless you have to go out for essential
shopping or for your daily exercises but for only 1 hour. So there
are no shops open shops like TESCO, Sainsburys or ASDA, so the
cities and villages are very quiet because no one has a reason to
go out. This is similar to ghost towns because it looks like no one
is there and looks like one, but the difference is that they are
forced to go because of being unemployed or having a better life Coventry's video
somewhere else. 
Coventry's 'ghost town' revived in old TV footage - BBC News economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural
or human-caused disasters such as oods, prolonged droughts,
government actions, uncontrolled lawlessness, war, pollution, or
Ghost town lyrics nuclear disasters. The term can sometimes refer to cities, towns,
and neighbourhoods that are still populated, but signi cantly
I've got no need for open roads less so than in past years; for example, those affected by high
'Cause all I own ts on my back levels of unemployment and dereliction.
I see the world from rusted trains
And always know I won't be back
'Cause all my life is wrapped up in today
Song
No past or future here
If I nd my name's no good "Ghost Town" is a song by the British two-tone band the
I just fall out of line Specials, released on 12 June 1981.[1] The song spent three weeks
But I miss you at number one and 10 weeks in total in the top 40 of the UK
But there's no comin' home Singles Chart. Addressing themes of urban decay,
There's no comin' home deindustrialisation, unemployment and violence in inner cities,
With a name like mine the song is remembered for being a hit at the same time as riots
I still think of you were occurring in British cities. Internal tensions within the
But everyone knows band were also coming to a head when the single was being
Yeah everyone knows recorded, resulting in the song being the last single recorded by
If you can, let it go the original seven members of the group before splitting up.
I seen more places than I can name
And over time they all start to look the same
But it ain't that truth we chase
No, it's the promise of a better place
But all this time, I been chasin' down a lie
And I know it for what it is
But it beats the alternatives
So I'll take the lie
I still miss you
There's no goin' home
There's no goin' home
With a name like mine
I still dream of you
But everyone knows
Yeah everyone knows
If you can, let it go

The Specials - Ghost Town (Official Music Video)

by The Specials
What is Ghost towns? YOUTUBE

A ghost town or alternatively deserted city or abandoned city is

an abandoned village, town, or city, usually one that contains
substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such
as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the

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