' Think of what is happening in Glasgow as what will happen to all the cities of Britain in 15 years' time.'
Once there was a small fishing village two miles outside Glasgow called Govan. In the last 40 years of the 19th century it grew to a dense and thriving town of 90,000, the heart of shipbuilding Clydeside. Two wars came and went and then, as swiftly and as strangely, the community of Govan dwindled and began to die.
This film tells the story of Govan through the voices of the people who live and have worked there. It is a story of the intimate threads that bind work, housing and people together, and how a community, shattered by industrial decline and bureaucratic indifference, fights for survival.
Research JANE HENRIQUES
Photography JOHN HOOPER , DAVID FEIG Sound DAVE JEWITT
Film editor ANDREW JOHNSTON Director DENNIS MARKS BBC Bristol