Can a steel town survive if its furnaces are turned off?

钢铁城关掉炉子还能生存吗?

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2024-12-19

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Port Talbot in Wales is defined by its huge steelworks. But in January Tata Steel announced it was ending primary steelmaking there. George McDonagh charts a year that could change the town for ever. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus
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  • This is the Guardian today.

  • What happens in a steel town once the furnaces are turned off?

  • Today in focus, producer George McDonough has spent the past year in the Welsh town of Port Elbert finding out.

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  • As a kid.

  • We'D go to West Wales every summer, visit the beach, get ice cream, and when it inevitably rained, well, we'd do it all anyway.

  • We'd drive up the M4 motorway from Newport in the east, past Cardiff Bridgend, and then we'd reach the stretch of road that passes through Port Albert.

  • First you see grey smoke and then these huge metal structures.

  • They've been up there, I've been here.

  • It's probably the biggest thing you see on the skyline.

  • Blast furnaces four and five, the heart of Tartar Steelworks.

  • Everyone always says, where'd you live at Tarbert?

  • Oh, the steelworks.

  • Yep.

  • They're so dramatic that some say director Ridley Scott based the opening scenes of Blade Runner on them.

  • I went to see it recently in the cinema.