East Anglia was once perhaps the most populous and prosperous part of England. Nowadays, it's primarily known for its stereotypical rusticness. I've seen a number of reasons suggested for its decline and inability to recover--conservative practices in its textile industry and geographic determinism, to name two--but I am no expert on English economic history after the Anglo-Saxon period. Is it plausible that East Anglia could retain its prosperity through to industrial revolution, or regain it via the industrial revolution?