[Acrylic-bob]

It strikes me that since the early seventies, those who had the get up and go, increasingly got up and went, decamping to nice places in the Ribble Valley and elsewhere. Where the air was clean, the houses reassuringly expensive and where the hoi-polloi and immigrants were hardly ever seen.

If you are looking for one reason above all others for the decline in the borough, it is that...

White Flight.