Sunday, 9 August 2020

Glanafan School

 I sketched the school while it was in the process of being demolished in 2017. This is based on an old photograph. 

The school opened in 1896 as the Port Talbot County Grammar School. In 2016 the school closed for the last time after being amalgamated with Sandfields and Cwrt Sart Schools to form the Ysgol Bae Baglan Super School. Much of the school was demolished, but the frontage preserved in the site’s redevelopment.

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