34) Port Talbot Saturday Outdoor Market

This is one of the ‘busiest sketches I’ve ever made. Every Saturday morning a market takes place in the main car park behind the shops on Station Road. When I first moved here all those years ago the market was a big event. It’s a long way past its heyday now. A few genuine market stalls are still clinging on, but there’s a lot of blank spaces where there used to be stall, and many of the stall that are there are really car boot sale stalls. Still, the whole thing still made for a lively enough scene, in which the figures are just as important as the stalls, if not more so.