Municipal Buildings

I'm informed that the Afan Shopping Centre stands roughly where this magnificent Victorian building once stood. The 1970s redevelopment of the centre of Port Talbot and Aberavon is often criticised. Playing Devil's advocate. I'm told that the old level crossing in Station Road made the centre of town into a permanent traffic jam, and the opportunities offered by the shopping centre may well have attracted businesses and jobs to the town. But the price paid, in losing buildings like this, was a heavy one.