Where Poverty Lives At The Seaside

It’s almost become a cliché that British seaside towns, barring the likes of Brighton, are now nothing more than dilapidated versions of their former selves.

Once the scene of thriving tourism industries, these towns have been crippled by years of declining industries and austerity.

Within this short documentary a focus is place on 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.