'What's happening now is that a few people in power are robbing this country of our natural heritage - oil, coal, railways, national health, everything.'

In 1986 the historic Swindon Workshops, the heart of Brunel's Great Western
Railway, joined the growing list of closed factories. Once Swindon's products were world famous, its 14,000 employees justly proud of their skills. But, having accepted massive redundancies and reorganisation in the long fight to save their works, most survivors had to join the dole queues.
Just before closure was announced, Peter Brown visited Swindon to see what survived of the old GWR spirit. Later he returned to find a bitter and disillusioned workforce. (R)