Where Poverty Lives At The Seaside

It’s almost become a cliché that British seaside towns are now nothing more than dilapidated versions of their former selves. Within this short documentary Artefact travels to the small Essex town of Harwich in an attempt to uncover one of Britain's underlying problems. The town has been described by local foodbank volunteers as an epicentre for modern day poverty with a mixture of poor education, transport systems and job prospects has slowly taken its toll. This documentary, produced by Artefact’s James Cropper, revisits the town in an attempt to further explore how a once successful seaside town has become so plagued by poverty.