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Port Talbot is for many a version of the 'Valleys-by-the-sea', and certainly its heavy industry, shoehorned into a narrow belt of flat land, feels like a 21st-century throwback to coal-mining Rhondda. The brainchild of an old-fashioned coal baron, and of the politically-inspired siting of heavy industry, Port Talbot in fact has a more genteel past as a resort, and may have a 'clean' future as a centre of environmental research and practice.
Using 100s of rarely-seen images from the archives of the South Wales Evening Post, this pictorial guide to Neath and Port Talbot marks a unique event as the towns are united as a county borough in a trip down memory lane'
Port Talbot has an undisputed claim to be called the actors capital of Wales, producing a remarkable number of actors since the inter-war years including Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Michael Sheen. This book suggests explanations for this phenomenon, while also surveying the careers of 50 actors from Port Talbot and considering what its most famous stars have put back into their community.
In Real Port Talbot, Lynne Rees goes in search of the delights of the 'small but mythic town' of Port Talbot. She explores its history and her own past and discovers a place both familiar and unexpectedly new. Updated with new information for this 2nd edition.
Founded in 1921, Port Talbot Harriers continues as an athletic force within the Welsh community. Founder member A. E. 'Arthur' Williams was the backbone of the club for over 60 years and hard work by the committee has seen the club grow.
This novel is a story part fiction and non fiction about a young black male born and brought up in a small country town in the south of Wales called Port Talbot, his parents who came from the West Indies in the late 1950, s have pasted on and the family home is left to Birdy and his brothers and sisters. Birdy has moved back to his family town to his parents home after spending over a decade in London city, he meets back up with some of his old time friends while his new London friends come down to Wales finding themselves involved with some of the Welsh girls and troubles with the Welsh guys etc. While Birdy younger brother Mark is up and down the town terrorizing it with his youthful crimes.this story is based around Port Talbot with the neighbouring towns and cities of Wales venturing into Bristol city and London city where places with people are made mentioned of, this book starts around the times of 1999 and moves along, there is another book which is to be continued up through and beyond the year 2000, ND right up to these present times.