steelworks

The land, part of a disused quarry once linked to the town's former steelworks, was identified as the ideal location due to strong local support.

Banksy left an image of a girl standing in falling snow – which is actually ash from a fire – on the corner of a garage near the steelworks in Port Talbot, south Wales, in 2018.

"Our family, like many others, is built around the steelworks. Who knows? My boys might end up working there one day, if it can be saved."

The steelworks, with its vast chimneys and towers, looms over the town, as it has done for generations.

One of Scunthorpe's blast furnaces is set to be temporarily shut down next week, in order to buy more time before the raw materials needed to keep the steelworks going run out.