Visibly in trouble: Northern Rock, a post-mortem on a financial crisis

Here we seek to spatialise aspects of the Northern Rock Bank crisis of 2007 by marrying two radically different approaches. We combine a discussion of financial lending practices with an articulation of herd behaviour in conditions of uncertainty. Both were part of the still-unfolding picture of a traumatic episode in the geography of finance but also convey lessons on the behaviour of society in situations of shortage.