Port Talbot Town Heritage Trail

Picture Credits

Vantage Point 1

1. Carmel Bethany Presbyterian Church: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
2. Riverside English Baptist Chapel: https://www.churches-uk-ireland.org/images/neath/port_talbot/riverside_bap.jpg
3. Former Carmel Presbyterian Chapel: Courtesy of Sally Roberts Jones
4. Former English Baptist church, Water Street: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
5. Odeon / Majestic Cinema: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society

Vantage Point 2

1. Bethany English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel: Courtesy of Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monument Wales
2. The Masonic Temple, Forge Road: https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/photo-challenge
3. Tabernacle Newydd Chapel, Forge Road: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
4. Bethany English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Station Road, Port Talbot 1880: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
5. Bethany Chapel with the Victoria Institute: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
6. Victoria Institute: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society

Vantage Point 3

1. Glanafan School, Station Road: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
2. Michael Sheen: Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
3. Wil Ifan: Clawr blaen ‘Y Corn Gwlad’ cylchgrawn Blynyddol Gorsedd y Beirdd a’r Eisteddfod RHIF 1. 1949-1950
4. Clive Jenkins: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
5. The Port Talbot Synagogue: Courtesy of Sally Roberts Jones
6. Midland Bank: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
7. The bank robbers’ tunnel: https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-audacious-bank-heist-that-was-doomed-to-fail/
8. Station Road 1908: Images courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
9. Lloyds Bank, Station Road; Courtesy of Sally Roberts Jones
10. Port Talbot Police Station, Station Road; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society

Vantage Point 4

1. The Grand Hotel; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
2. The Grand Hotel; https://the-grand-sa13-1de.hotels-wales.com/en/
3. Port Talbot Mosque; https://mosquefinder.co.uk/port-talbot-mosque.html
4. A view of the Grand Hotel, Oakwood Lane and Eagle House on the right; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
5. Richard Burton 1956; 20th Century Fox, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
6. Eagle House just before its demolition in 2023; Courtesy of Sean Pursey
7. The Plaza Cinema; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society

Vantage Point 5

1. The Plaza Cinema interior; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
2. The Grand Cinema, High Street; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
3. The Regent Cinema, Commercial Road, Taibach; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
4. The Picturedrome, Alma Terrace; Courtesy of Julian James
5. The old Customs House; Courtesy of Sally Roberts Jones
6. Customs House Port Dock and Rail company offices; https://www.talkphotography.co.uk/threads/royal-buildings-and-customs-house-port-talbot.387339/
7. Customs House and Royal Buildings; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
8. Royal Buildings, Talbot Road; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society

Vantage Point 6

1. The old Station: http://history.seanpursey.co.uk/eagle-house/
2. The old Post Office; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
3. Margam Terrace: Old Port Talbot and District in Photos Vol 2 Plate 57
4. Shop on Station Road C 1909; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
5. Ferrari’s, Station Road; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society

Vantage Point 7

1. The Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway map: Own Work, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:R%26SBR_1885.png
2. Thatched houses on the Causeway: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
3. High Street looking at Aberavon Bridge 1909; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
4. Aberafan Bridge; https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/300022804-aberavon-bridge-partly-in-port-talbot-community-aberavon
5. Floods in Water Street 1909 & Floods at Eagle Street; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
6. Floods at Eagle Street: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society

Vantage Point 8

1. Ebenezer Baptist Chapel today: FruitMonkey, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
2. High Street 1905: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
3. High Street: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
4. High Street: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
5. High Street: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
6. Aberafan Charter 1304; Courtesy of West Glamorgan Archives, Swansea.
7. Wooden chest where the Charter was hidden from Cromwell: Photo: Eirwen Hopkins
8. The Globe Hotel: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
9. Talbot Square, Courtesy of Carl Kirby FB Group History of Port Talbot
10. The Causeway, Aberavon: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society

Vantage Point 9

1. Castle Hotel and the Oddfellows Arms: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
2. Aberafan Indoor Market, Water Street; Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
3. Water Street 1905: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
4. High Street 1950’s: Courtesy of Port Talbot Historical Society
5. Building of new chapels to replace those demolished in 1974: Courtesy of Royal Commission for Ancient Historic Monuments of Wales
6. Church in Wales church of St Mary the Virgin, Port Talbot; https://www.churches-uk-ireland.org/towns/p/port_talbot.html

Vantage Point 10

1. The old St Mary’s church: Old Afan and Margam by J. O’Brien Facing P 60
2. Grave of Richard Lewis (Dic Penderyn): by John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=69639500
3. Front cover: ‘Dic Penderyn: the Man and the Martyr’ by S. Roberts Jones: Y Lolfa Press 2022
4. St Mary’s churchyard: https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/2138770/saint-mary-the-virgin-churchyard
5. Frances Hoggan; Wikimedia Commons & Ruth Bidgood: Courtesy of Seren Books
6. The arms of the Avene family under Leision de Avene: Courtesy of Paul R Davis
7. Plan of Aberafan Castle: Fig. 109- Aberafan Castle: the location of vestiges recorded in 1876 on the O.S. 25-inch map. Glamorgan Early Castles RCHAMW p 155