Shipbuilding and the Decline of Riverside Communities
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Doctor Socrates
On Tyneside we are now at the end of the industrial period and Johnny Armstrong is a victim. In one respect thing’s haven’t changed in centuries. Johnny is in the same position as Harry Nixon from The Battle or those captured by the press gangs in Captain Bover / Here’s the Tender Coming. It’s the working class poor who have always been used by those in power to fight their battles.