Whilst it has been decades since the swan song of Teesside’s big Industries, their stories, and that of the people they have affected, are still in living memory. One by one, the buildings are pulled down, the mines closed, the dumpsites covered over.

Any evidence of what was is fast disappearing, fuelled in no small part by companies’ renewed efforts to repair reputations, combined with the governments growing push to further environmental benefit in the region.

Echoes of Industry” is the result of a series of ongoing road-trips with a veteran of British Steel and surrounding production facilities.

The selection of sites was made through his personal stories, of memories, revisiting them to document them as they are now, against the backdrop of their oral histories.

Anchored in the oral history of an almost extinct settlement, Echoes of Industry captures fleeting evidence of the Industrial world that once was wrapped around the heart of the North East, and the stories of the people that lived and passed under its shadow.

The quotes within began with interviews with the retired Industrial employee and his wife, whom have spent their whole lives in Teesside, with much of it around South Bank and Grangetown in Middlesborough.