What does Orwell describe in this extract? As you travel northward your eye, accustomed to the South or East, does not notice much difference until you are beyond Birmingham. […] It is only when you get a little further north, to the pottery towns and beyond, that you begin to encounter the real ugliness of industrialism – an ugliness so frightful and so arresting that you are obliged, as it were, to come to terms with it.
George Orwell, from The Road to Wigan Pier