7) Station Road

This is the first of several sketches that I've made of Station Road, which was effectively the High Street, and the main shopping area of Port Talbot until the Afan Shopping Centre was built in the 70s. The main building shown here is Dewi's Estate Agents. I think that you can see that this is a development from the three earlier sketches, since it's going beyond sketching just one building, but instead using part of a whole street.

It's probably fair to say that Station Road has seen better days, but it still boasts a collection of quite imposing buildings from the 19th and 20th centuries. Personally, I think that this is what a town High Street ought to look like. As the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins once wrote - "Glory be to God for dappled things".