Tony Smith
Tony Smith is a retired old fart living in a former coal mining and cotton mill town in the North-West of England. He watches and dwells on the town’s struggle to retain some of its former industrial glory and its slow but steady decline. Gone is the local council and with it, the town hall. The local fire station is gone and the police station is no longer user friendly. Gone are the banks and the only way of getting cash is via two or three cash machines shared by the whole town’s...

