Das Gebäude der Central Road (im Vordergrund von links nach rechts), Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, Großbritannien Ende 1950s – hier musste die neue Straße Reihenhäuser abreißen. Eine neue Betonendwand (oder Giebel mit Gesäß) wurde in der Penrhyn Street 16 hinzugefügt. Die Central Road war eine der Hauptzufahrtsstraßen zum Stahlwerk. Schließlich war die Hauptroute zu den Werken über die Cefn Gwrgan Road. Beide Zufahrtsstraßen wurden jedoch durch das Gebäude der Hafenstraße im Jahr 2013 abgeschnitten – ein altes Foto aus dem Jahr 1950s/60s.
3780 x 3809 px | 32 x 32,2 cm | 12,6 x 12,7 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
4. Februar 2022
Ort:
Central Road, Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
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The building of Central Road (running left to right in the foreground), Port Talbot, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK in the late 1950s – here the new road had required the demolition of terraced houses. A new concrete end wall (or gable end with buttressing) was added to 16 Penrhyn Street. Central Road was one of the main access routes to the steelworks. Eventually the main route to the works was via Cefn Gwrgan Road. However, both these access roads were cut by the building of Harbour Way bypass in 2013. Port Talbot steelworks, an integrated steel production plant is made up of a number of plants across a large site, developed since 1901. The original works were built by Gilbertson (1901–5) situated south of Port Talbot railway station. This part of the site was demolished in the early 1960s. The original Margam Iron and Steel Works was built 1923–1926. Several manufacturers pooled their resources to form the Steel Company of Wales and constructed the integrated Abbey Works plant that opened in the early 1950s. At the time of peak employment in the 1960s, this was Europe's largest steelworks with a workforce of 18, 000. The Steel Company of Wales was nationalised in 1967 and absorbed into British Steel Corporation, which was later privatised and merged to form Corus Group. Tata Group purchased Corus in 2007. In 2010 Corus was renamed Tata Steel Europe, then Tata Steel Strip Products UK Port Talbot Works. The plants produce millions of tonnes of hot and cold rolled annealed steel coils. This image is from an old black and white negative taken by a photographer interested in industrial South Wales. It will look slightly soft if used at too large a size – a vintage 1950s/60s photograph.
