Back in 1987, the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher, was famously photographed standing on the derelict site of a former engineering works on Teeside to display her new-found commitment to urban regeneration.
Fast forward a quarter century and the site, Thornaby, is now the car park of one of the many new office blocks that have sprung up in the last decades.
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