England's North-West, the peat-moored spine of England. This was the land that gave us the modern world! This was the home of the Industrial Revolution, changing the habits of homo-sapiens the way the agrarian revolution had done ten thousand years earlier. And what did that heritage mean? It meant slums. It meant shite. Burnt out by all that 'production'. Capital strides the globe and it walked out on the North-West around the time Queen Victoria popped it. The remnants, derelict working-class housing zones, empty redbrick mills and warehouses and a sense of self that included loss and pride in equal if confused measures.