Port Talbot in the Parishes of Margam and Aberavon

An online index to the book Images of Neath & Port Talbot by David Roberts [South Wales Evening Post] has been provided by Brian Wagstaffe

• Robert B Byass & Co Ltd, tinplate manufacturers
  1829-1893, nd: minutes, documents books
  British Steel Records Centre, Shotton, Shotton Works, Deeside CH5 2NH - Reference: HMC list]

  Port Talbot Brick & Tile Works
  1845-59: account book
  [West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea - Reference: 191]

• Port Talbot Dry Dock Company Limited, ship repairers
  1898-1971: minutes, share and financial records, inventory, salary book
  [West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea - Reference: D/D X 105]
• Port Talbot & Margam Gas Company
  1890-1949: minutes, plan, photographs
  [Glamorgan Archive Service, Cardiff]
• Port Talbot Railway & Docks Company
  • 1836-76, 1883-1922: directors and shareholders minutes, contracts, plan, misc papers, staff register, general manager's and engineers' reports, historical files, property records etc
    [Public Record Office, Kew, London - Reference: RAIL 573-74, 1057]
  • c1895-1922, nd: stock registers
    [West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea - Reference: D/D PRO/BRB 33-57, 121-124]

Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site

• St. Theodore's Church, Port Talbot.
• Chapel of Ease, Port Talbot.
• Bethany Chapel, Port Talbot
• Margam Abbey, Port Talbot.
• Superintendant and Teachers, Bethany Chapel, Port Talbot.
• Laying the foundation stone at St Agnes' Church, Port Talbot
• Holy Trinity Church, Sandfields, Port Talbot

For full and up-to-date details of their holdings see the sites of Glamorgan Record Office and/or West Glamorgan Archives

The church is dedicated to St. Agnes, is in the Benefice of Port Talbot St. Agnes with Oakwood, and diocese of Llandaff. Details of the present incumbent of this benefice can be found at the Church in Wales website. The church can be located at grid reference SS768902.

WGRO - West Glamorgan Record Office, Swansea
NLW - National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth

Port Talbot - on Wikipedia

Neath and Port Talbot Borough  home page

• Geograph
• Flickr

Transcript of complete name listing for Port Talbot and neighbourhood, from Slaters Directory for 1858-1859.

• Port Talbot harbour
  • 1899-1968: record books of arrivals and sailings
    [West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea - Reference: D/D X1m]
  • 1895-1899: ships' dues register
    [West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea]

• Ask for a calculation of the distance from Port Talbot in the Parishes of Margam and Aberavon to another place.

Various items (this is a random selection, many others on the site) - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Centre of Port Talbot
• Station Road, Port Talbot, c. 1906
• Aberavon and Port Talbot, General View.
• The Market, Port Talbot
• High Street, Port Talbot
• Water Street, Port Talbot
• Pen-y-Cae Mountain, Port Talbot
• Aberavon Beach
• General Railway Station, Port Talbot.
• Aberavon Railway Station, Port Talbot.
• Margam Cottage Hospital, Port Talbot
• Margam Castle, Nr Port Talbot.
• Mayoral Procession on the founding of Port Talbot Borough, November 1921.
• Crowd at the departure of the Glamorgan Imperial Yeomanry from Port Talbot Station.
• Procession, possibly a Carnival passing the Grand Hotel, Port Talbot.
• Butcher's shop, High Street, Port Talbot.
• A view of Water Street following the flood of 1909, with the Port Talbot Hotel at the far end of the street.
• Marching Band possibly part of a Carnival Procession, passing the Grand Hotel, Port Talbot.
• The Old Margam U.D.C. Fire Brigade passing the Grand Hotel, Port Talbot.

You can see maps centred on OS grid reference SS763902 (Lat/Lon: 51.597021, -3.787297), Port Talbot in the Parishes of Margam and Aberavon which are provided by:

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• Google Maps
• StreetMap (Current Ordnance Survey maps)
• OpenStreetMap Cymru (Welsh counties only)
• Bing (was Multimap)
• Old Maps Online
• National Library of Scotland (Old Ordnance Survey maps)
• Vision of Britain (Click "Historical units & statistics" for administrative areas.)
• Magic (Geographic information) (Click + on map if it doesn't show)
• GeoHack (Links to on-line maps and location specific services.)

• All places within the same township/parish shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby townships/parishes shown on an Openstreetmap map.
• Nearby places shown on an Openstreetmap map.

Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Port Talbot Docks c1909  (multiple items)
• The crew and committee of the Port Talbot RNLI outside the old lifeboat station at Aberavon Beach.

Memorial Service, Mansel Tinplate Works - on the People's Collection Wales site

Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Officials at the steelworks c1930
• Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot.
• Baldwin's Works, Port Talbot.
• The Margam Steelworks, Port Talbot (various dates)
• The Mansel Works, Port Talbot.
• Two workers at the steelworks, Port Talbot c1930

• Port Talbot Borough Labour Party

1952-1963: Cwmafan ward minutes
[West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea - Reference: Lab/PT]

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Port Talbot Borough Council Records         "Records of Aberavon Borough and Port Talbot Borough Council, 1894-1970, including newspapers, 1908-1970; cine films, 1982-1986."  
• Port Talbot District Council Records         1960s-1996

• Port Talbot Free Church Federal Council

1949-84: minute books
[National Library of Wales, Department of Manuscripts and Records]

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Park School log book     1950-1964             "Park School was a senior school in Port Talbot, Glamorgan. The school was opened in 1950 and closed in 1964, to be replaced by Port Talbot Eastern Secondary School."      
• Port Talbot Central School Records                 "......... including log books, 1899-1950; stock and inventory books, 1946-1963"
• Port Talbot Eastern School records          "Port Talbot Eastern School was opened as Margam Copper Works School in the 19th century. It was renamed in 1902. ...................."
  "................including log books, 1868-1974; admission registers, 1904-1961; weekly summary attendance registers, 1947-1950; returns to Board of Education, 1918-1958; HMI reports, 1923-1957; departmental reports, 1919-1952; staff salary records, 1917-1959; financial records, 1957-1959; records relating to school events, 1965-1973"  
• Port Talbot Intermediate School Records        "..... comprising minutes, 1924-1949; accounts, 1919-1948; copies of Glanafan School magazine, 'The Avonian', 1971-2002."  
• Tirmorfa School [Port Talbot] admission registers     1956-1995

Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site

• County School, Port Talbot
• Sandfields School, Port Talbot.
• Class photograph from Tirmorfa Infants School, c.1965.
• Staff at Tirmorfa Infants School c.1965.

• Port Talbot Lawn Tennis Cricket Club
  1910-1955: minute book
  [West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea - Reference: D/D Xlm]
• Port Talbot Municipal Choir
  c1950-1970: records
  [West Glamorgan Archive Service, Swansea - Reference: D/D Z 24]

Various items - on the People's Collection Wales site

• Port Talbot Bethlehem Stars, 1922-23 season (soccer)
• Production of 'Die Fledermaus' by the Port Talbot & District Amateur Operatic Society, c1970s.
• Mansel Cricket Club
• Aberavon RFC, 1919-1920 Season.

Port Talbot Historical Society