Direct Watercolour Challenge 2025 22 Port Talbot Dock Hotel

 

 was so happy with my bison painting that I decided to start another painting on the evening of the same day – Thursday 19^th June. I didn’t start until much later than I normally would because it wasn’t until later in the day that my new pad of watercolour paper was delivered. So, this building is the Dock Hotel in Port Talbot. After marrying a local girl I moved to Port Talbot from London in 1986. Port Talbot, an important industrial town, did have many fine Victorian and Edwardian buildings but a lot of them were swept away I a large scale redevelopment of the centre of tow in the early 1970s. I did see this building before it was demolished in 1989 – a crying shame in my opinion.