Dem you must be a youngster mate,do you must remember Blue Peter!..
From my part of the world in Coventry talented guys used to make and design lots of good stuff here,sold all over the world,contributing to the UK balence of payments in a big way,but buy the late 80's it was all over,all the factories were closeing replaced with this so called service industry,with its round and round money,greed and lots of wonga for me was then the name of the game, but puting nothing back into the system, hence most of the the shite were into today!
Thatcher started all this..
Dave