A song about how various decisions made by the Conversative Goverment in the 1980s effected towns that were built around a particular industry - more or less anyway.
The Conversative Goverment closed down a lot of industires in Britain in favour of shipping in from abroad for a much cheaper price. The most commonly referenced is the Coal Mines due the high profile Miner's Strike in 1984/5. The town in this song is a town built around the Coal Mining buisisness 'the eerie wail from the pit' and the 'ghosts of men taking the morning shift'.
This lead to a lot of things being closed down, in this case, mines. Which lead to a lot of people moving away from the towns that were built around these industries leaving ghost towns in thier wake.
A song about how various decisions made by the Conversative Goverment in the 1980s effected towns that were built around a particular industry - more or less anyway.
The Conversative Goverment closed down a lot of industires in Britain in favour of shipping in from abroad for a much cheaper price. The most commonly referenced is the Coal Mines due the high profile Miner's Strike in 1984/5. The town in this song is a town built around the Coal Mining buisisness 'the eerie wail from the pit' and the 'ghosts of men taking the morning shift'.
This lead to a lot of things being closed down, in this case, mines. Which lead to a lot of people moving away from the towns that were built around these industries leaving ghost towns in thier wake.
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