The original text for this post has been removed as an expanded version of it will appear in Planet, The Welsh Internationalist in Autumn 2015.
For more about wrecks strewn across Baglan Sands and the mouth of the River Nedd see A. Leslie Evans' The Story of Baglan (Port Talbot).
For more information about the Floating Docks* at Briton Ferry see Philip Adams' A Most Industrious Town, Briton Ferry and its people 1814 - 2014.
*Brunel was appointed to construct the docks in 1853 but he died in 1859, two years before completion. The docks closed in 1959 and fell into disuse but what remains of them is now protected by CADW together with the accumulator tower that powered the lock gates and cranes, not far from the new offices of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council at The Quays in the Baglan Energy Park.
For more about wrecks strewn across Baglan Sands and the mouth of the River Nedd see A. Leslie Evans' The Story of Baglan (Port Talbot).
For more information about the Floating Docks* at Briton Ferry see Philip Adams' A Most Industrious Town, Briton Ferry and its people 1814 - 2014.
*Brunel was appointed to construct the docks in 1853 but he died in 1859, two years before completion. The docks closed in 1959 and fell into disuse but what remains of them is now protected by CADW together with the accumulator tower that powered the lock gates and cranes, not far from the new offices of Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council at The Quays in the Baglan Energy Park.
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