The UK towns and cities worse off than 100 years ago

Over the past 100 years new industries and new ways of working have divided the UK's towns and cities into haves and have-nots. Some have managed to make the transition, while others have been unable to recreate the boom they enjoyed in the early 20th Century. Why have some cities managed to stride ahead, while others have fallen by the wayside? Funding, infrastructure and opportunity all play a part, marking the difference between the places able to adapt and those forced into a cycle of low-paid, low-skilled jobs. In the decades after World War Two, London's economy fell into long-term decline.