"You'll open the window one morning and it won't look like Port Talbot." Photographer Jon Pountney said he remembers thinking "what the hell is this?" the first time he saw the steelworks ...
Tata Steel has announced 2,800 jobs will be lost, mainly at its steelworks in Port Talbot in the next 18 months In the Welsh town of Port Talbot it feels like everyone is "connected" to the ...
In its heyday during the 1960s, more than 18,000 people were employed at Port Talbot’s Abbey steelworks. But the site has gone through many periods of change, which has sometimes resulted in ...
Earlier this year the final blast furnace at Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales shut down. It marked the end of an era for the coastal town which has been a major steel producer for decades.
"We have the beach, we have the mountains, however the steelworks is our identity - we are the steel town." Gabriella Jukes' grandfather, uncles and cousins have all worked in Port Talbot's steel ...
The final blast furnace at Port Talbot's Tata steelworks will shut down today, marking the end of an era at the site. After days of winding down, blast furnace four will stop operating on Monday ...
Future steelmaking in Port Talbot will rely on imports until an electric furnace, which melts scrap steel, is built. The move has created uncertainty for both those who work at the steelworks and ...
Welsh Secretary Jo Stevens said the Tories owe the people of Port Talbot an apology for ‘failing to deliver a single penny’.
The event follows the official end of traditional steel production in Wales, after the final blast furnace at the Tata steelworks site in Port Talbot was switched off for a final time on October 1.
Mark Griffiths Mandie Pugh has operated a burger van near the steelworks for the past 36 years Photographer Mark Griffiths described his "close connection" to the town, growing up in Port Talbot ...