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Welcome to Port Talbot

Posted by Tom Ashmore in A Stranger's Invasion, Blog, Photo Essays. 8 comments

28th September

Today, after having some friends visit, I went to a small, industrial town in Wales called Port Talbot. It’s known for it’s huge, billowing chimney’s, and the idea was to be able to get close enough to get some interesting shots of the smoke and see what the town was like. I was joined on this momentous journey by:

Tom

Gawain

Stepping off the train we headed into the town and was immediately greeted by this once grand, and now severely dilapidated building. It was a sign of things to  come.

 

Port Talbot turned out to be the single most depressing place I’ve ever been in my life. Now, it important that you know I am not talking about the residents here. In fact, everyone we came across during the day were friendly and approachable, and very, very normal – but this just made it more difficult … Read More »




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