5) Taibach Library

My second pen and ink sketch of Port Talbot using the specialist pen is Taibach Library. I like this building very much, and in fact I painted it in acrylics some time before making this sketch. It lies on the A48, the main road eastwards out of the centre of the town, and there are several other buildings on the same road which I've since sketched.

Taibach Library was cut by Neath Port Talbot Council a couple of years ago, but is currently manned and staffed by a group of wonderful volunteers. The building was one of over 600 created through the behest of the famous Scots American philanthropist Andrew Carnegie - this was a later one, having been built in 1916 by architect John Cox.