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The Occasional Uploader
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I'm the "Occasional Uploader" in every sense... I record an eclectic mix of activities every so often and upload whenever my time and internet speed allows!
Port Talbot Steelworks - 1980 Documentary
This was a documentary produced by Thames Television and documented the plight of the workers of Port Talbot Steelworkers and their supply chain.
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Aberafan Shopping Centre 1990~2024 Comparison
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A fairly rough comparison video of Aberafan Shopping Centre taken in December 1990 and December 2024. It is accurate to a few inches where Mr Dennis Reed filmed the 1990 video, but it was incredibly difficult to get an identical shot.
Cwmafan Infants - Christmas Play 1994
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The children of Cwmafan Infants give their annual Christmas Nativity play.
Aberafan Beach Bonfire Night Fireworks Lightshow
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Timelapse of the fireworks whilst sat enjoying a coffee at #MemoBeach down Aberafan Beach.
Dyffryn School Demolition ~ September 2024 update
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The buildings, bar one, have now been complete razed ready for the land to be built upon.
Dyffryn School Demolition ~ August 2024 Update
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A massive difference since July's update, whereby all but one of the school's buildings have now been demolished. It's unclear whether they intend to keep this building, and I'm not entirely sure what the original purpose of the building was.
Aberafan Shopping Centre, Port Talbot - December 1990
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This old footage recorded near Christmas 1990 shows a glimpse of Aberafan Shopping Centre and shops that have long since gone. There are lots of people in this clip, so please feel free to name them in the comments section. Footage courtesy of Mr Dennis Reed, Port Talbot.
Sunset Timelapse at Aberafan Beach, Port Talbot in July 2024
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Filmed during the mini heatwave in July, 2024. Includes ambient sounds.
Dyffryn School Demolition ~ JULY 2024 update
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Work to demolish Dyffryn Lower Comprehenive School continues, with the eastern side of the site now nearly completely flattened.
Dyffryn School Demolition ~ JUNE 2024 update
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Work is continuing on the demolition of Dyffryn Lower school, Port Talbot with approximately 40% of it now razed.
Corrwg River - Timelapse
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A short timelapse of the River Corrwg flowing steadily through the Afan valley on a sunny afternoon in May and eventually down to the sea at Aberafan.
Fast moving clouds above St. Josephs, Aberafan. May 18th, 2024
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A timelapse of the sky above St. Joseph's Church in Aberafan, Port Talbot. The timelapse was recording for just under an hour.
Work begins on Dyffryn Lower School, Port Talbot ~ May 2024
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A quick fly over the site of Dyffryn Lower Comprehensive School on a sunny May evening in 2024. The school closed in 2018, and work has just begun to redevelop the site into social housing.
A happy (rescue) boy
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The happy boy has a run after heavy rainfall. Music credit - Fluffing a Duck by Kevin MacLeod Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International - CC BY 4.0 Music promoted by Audio Library ruclips.net/video/yQjAF3frudY/видео.html
You don't know what your talking about. 1 it's not new it's been open several years. 2. It's a concept store to trial new ideas, and most of these ideas won't see the light of day.
The british government was really out yo destroy wales steel coal .its as if they wanted to punish us and turn us into slaves of the nation .what do we make in Britain now? nothingwe are an island that relies on expensive low-grade imports .if wales opened her mines and steel again we would be a great country far superior to England. Fact .
The South Koreans can teach us how they efficiently mass-produced steel, cement, and ships for commercial purposes. Comparative advantage should lead to Ricardian Specialization.
This was an absolutely crazy period in UK economic history. It was the multiplier effect in reverse. Shutting down industrial plants like the steelworks had a knock on effect on dependent industries which then rippled further and further outward. Whatever money was saved by shutting down the works was lost many times over in the costs imposed on the rest of the economy. North sea oil money should have been invested in modernisation to lower costs and raise the competitiveness of these industries. A lot of jobs would have still been lost but there would have been more alternative jobs for redundant workers to move into and the UK economy wouldn't have been gutted into the debt and import dependent shell it is now.
How can uncompetitive businesses be revived by throwing in taxpayers' money? Marginal productivity only increases with optimal input-output planning and demand forecasting leading to better economic planning and risk management.
@@syedadeelhussain2691 You could stop them becoming uncompetitive in the first place.
@@person.X. yes , but external diseconomies of scale is an exogenous shock
so the issue is simple you cant compete with Asia your biggest costs are labor and meeting regulations health and safety and environmental so you go to Asia pay the workers 10%-20% as much as your western worker meaning you get 5-1 and they don't care about the environment and if a worker gets hurt there is 5 more guys to pick up his tools so say you save 50% on production cost and spend 30% of that on shipping you are still up 20% plus the British have a habit of striking when times are tuff Asian workers don't they just would eat a pay cut if it meant keeping a job because a 10% pay cut is better than a 100% pay loss
I believe the last Blast Furnace in Britain has, or is shutting down, so no more steel to be produced from raw materials, so from now on the only steel to be produced will be from scrap which i believe limits the ability to cover every sector of the steal market.
It's closed now. Building a new arc furnace soon so no more virgin steel in port talbot! The place has never brought me a living and I'll be glad to see the back of it!! Sacrificing the locals health when 80 percent of the town has never worked there! Money earned there is spent out of town, so good riddance to it!! Let's concentrate on our amazing coast and start using that to bring money back to the town!!
Not quite. there is still one and a half furnaces in scunthorpe going. I say a half as one of their furnaces was chilled for about a year abd gas o ly just been recovered (poorly). It's had it.
It’s sad to see how downhill the town has gone in 34 years. As someone who’s travelled a lot around the UK this has happened everywhere.
What a find! I can still feel that tinsel itching me 30 years later!
I enjoy your videos of Port Talbot, keep them coming.
The first thing ive noticed is how busy the shopping centre was back then compared to now.
what the hell, that's my grandmother @ 3:57 she died in 2004 when I was 10 years old, wow.
What plans if any, are the council going to put there? Flats?
Shared, great vid
Brilliant. I was straining my eyes all the way through to see if someone I knew popped up lol. I was 10 years old lol.
Is it still the plan to put scabby, inferior housing on there