2024-12-19
32 分钟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.