Photographs and documents

A picture tells a thousand words! Here is a collection of photographs and documents that speak for themselves, capturing moments in time from Neath Port Talbot’s Military Heritage.

If you have a photograph you’d like to share, we would love to hear from you – email armedforces@npt.gov.uk

Pictures courtesy of Bryngold Books (www.bryngoldbooks.com)

Residents of Skittle Alley, the nickname given to a narrow street off Water Street, Aberavon, enjoying their VE Day party, May 1945. The street was near the site of Port Talbot Health Centre

The party mood in evidence at Charles Street, Port Talbot in May 1945

Residents of Longford Road, Neath Abbey, at a party they held for their children to celebrate VE Day, 1945

The war in Europe was over and this is how they celebrated in Henry Street, Neath, May 1945

Pictures courtesy of Tess Phillips

Tess & Fred Wilson 1940 – brother and sister Tess and Fred Wilson in their garden in Oakwood Street, Port Talbot after a bomb was dropped there on 29 June 1940

Fred Wilson 1940 - Fred Wilson in the garden of his house in Oakwood Street, Port Talbot after a bomb was dropped there on 29 June 1940

Tess & Martha Wilson & neighbour 1940 - Tess and Martha Wilson and a neighbour at their house in Oakwood Street, Port Talbot after a bomb was dropped there on 29 June 1940