WAW005818 WALES (1947). General view of Port Talbot showing docks
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| Title | [WAW005818] General view of Port Talbot showing docks |
| Reference | WAW005818 |
| Date | 19-May-1947 |
| Link | Coflein Archive Item 6413352 |
| Place name | |
| Parish | |
| District | |
| Country | WALES |
| Easting / Northing | 276530, 190220 |
| Longitude / Latitude | -3.7827955676634, 51.596802833336 |
| National Grid Reference | SS765902 |
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| 2ndWW barbed wire entanglements surrounding the Emergency Coast Artillery Battery. |
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| 2ndWW Emergency Coastal Artillery Battery, e34382. |
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| Glan Afan Grammar school. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:41:09 AM |
| Steel works melting shops. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:39:09 AM |
| Harvey's Lake (now a housing estate). |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:38:20 AM |
| Olive Street. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:37:10 AM |
| Norman Street? |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:36:32 AM |
| Norman Street? |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:36:32 AM |
| Woolworths store. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:33:54 AM |
| A board sign, mounted on a wall marking the Western Welsh bus garage. I spent many an hour sitting on this wall in the late 50's/early 60's train spotting. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:31:44 AM |
| Western Welsh bus garage. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:28:15 AM |
| 21 Margam Terrace, my grandparents lived here. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:27:30 AM |
| Aberavon Market. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:25:24 AM |
| Water feeder channel in to Port Talbot docks |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:24:36 AM |
| CONEY BEACH funfair later occupied this area, now its all blocks of flats. |
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| The Beach Hotel - this area now site of grubby looking flats. |
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| Victoria Road. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:16:16 AM |
| Lower end of Lake Road. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:15:14 AM |
| This area now Little Warren housing estate. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:14:24 AM |
| Newbridge Road. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:13:06 AM |
| Ruskin Avenue. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:12:06 AM |
| Talbot Wharf. |
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| Port Talbot General railway station. |
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Sunday 17th of October 2021 02:10:02 AM |
| Beach Hill, leading to Victoria and the beach. |
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| Pilots Rest |
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 St. Mary's Church, Aberavon, Port Talbot, 26/07/2015. Taken from a train window. |
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