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Yvonne Redfern

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Yvonne Redfern is a writer living in the Midlands. She is currently working on a novel based on another post industrial town, not unlike Shotton

A safety exercise takes place at the Shotton steel works, around ten years before its closure. The author's father-in-law, Norman, is on the far left of the frame.
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Shotton, 1984: How Thatcher destroyed our town

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