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55-506: The term "Forward Movement" is said to have been used for the first time in the mid-1880s, at an informal gathering, by Mrs Maria McArthur, the wife of Alexander McArthur , an Irish-born Methodist businessman and politician who at the time lived in Brixton , London. The expression was quickly adopted more widely, with the encouragement of the Methodist leader, William Fiddian Moulton , and in 1891

110-559: A Welsh minister, John Pugh, and his friend Seth Joshua took the initiative in Wales by erecting a tent in Splott , Cardiff, as a way of starting a new Calvinistic Methodist church. It was acknowledged, however, that the origins of the movement went back as far as the 1870s. It was also closely associated with the " Holiness movement " and the work of American evangelical leader Robert Pearsall Smith . Another Welsh minister, Hugh Price Hughes , became

165-415: A boy playing in what appears to be snowfall, but the other side shows the snowfall is ash falling from a bin fire. In May 2019, the mural was moved to a gallery in the town's Ty'r Orsaf building. In April 2011, actor Michael Sheen led a 72-hour National Theatre Wales production of a modern retelling of The Passion . The play began at 5:30 am on Good Friday with a seafront scene, inspired by John

220-584: A campus at Baglan Energy Park called the Hydrogen Centre , which includes a Renewable Hydrogen Research and Development Centre. The South Wales Miners' Museum is located in Cynonville, Cymmer . The nearby Margam Stones Museum has early Christian inscribed stones and Celtic crosses, including four from the area now under the Steelworks. A Roman milestone, an 8th-century pillar, and two Celtic crosses from

275-445: A fall of one place in a decade. As of 2021 Neath Port Talbot was the 11th least densely populated of Wales' 22 local authority areas. There had been an increase of 15.5 percent in people aged 65 years and over, a decrease of 2.3 percent in people aged 15 to 64 years, and an increase of 2.5 percent in children aged under 15 years. Of Port Talbot's population in 2000, 63 percent were between the ages of 15 and 64. Male unemployment in 2000

330-668: A time circa 2004 the Forward Movement's ministries used space outside downtown, it again has offices within diocesan headquarters). By 1940, Bishops Tucker and Hobson felt the National Council could assume many of Forward Movement's ministries. At the General Convention of that year, therefore, the Forward Movement Commission was not discharged. But Forward Movement's success as a publisher led Tucker to ask that

385-491: Is a mix of unconsolidated sediment with a range of grain sizes. This forms as the fronts of glaciers rapidly deposit material due to melting. Cwmafan in Port Talbot is built upon alluvial and glaciofluvial deposits , formed from glacial meltwater . Baglan Moors, Fairfield and Port Talbot town centre are built upon tidal flat deposits (tides were higher 12,000 years ago allowing sandy deposits to accumulate). Coal seams within

440-412: Is a town and community in the county borough of Neath Port Talbot , Wales , situated on the east side of Swansea Bay , approximately eight miles (thirteen kilometres) from Swansea . The Port Talbot Steelworks covers a large area of land which dominates the south east of the town. It is one of the biggest steelworks in the world, but has been under threat of closure since the 1980s. The population

495-419: Is an intricately sculptured cross-slab with a Latin cross and an inscription recalling Brancuf. Originally it stood in the old St Baglan's church but that fell into ruin in the late 19th century and the slab was removed to St Catharine's. St Baglan (Bagelan), son of King Ithael Hoel of Brittany, was a 6th-century hermit and follower of St Illtud . He founded the first church at the town that now takes his name. In

550-544: Is between 3 and 20 metres (10 and 66 ft). Several landslips occur in the highlands including many bole holes historically made for the construction of the M4 motorway, steelworks and coal mines. Rivers in the region are fault guided meaning that they flow is highly influenced by a structural weakness called a fault. Several natural springs occur in the highland regions with a neutral to slightly acidic ph values. Natural groundwater levels varies from 10 metres (35 ft) below

605-453: Is built upon blown sand and tidal flat deposits. These were deposited by the wind via aeolian processes and the water by fluvial processes . Velindre area of Port Talbot is built upon an alluvial fan deposit. This deposit formed during the last glacial period 14,000 years ago. Baglan Road in Port Talbot is built upon glacial till from the Devensian period. Till, also known as boulder clay ,

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660-638: Is through an online bookstore, parish churches, and an annual catalog. Several titles are published in Spanish. Some current titles are available on the Amazon Kindle and Barnes & Noble Book stores, as well as other popular locations. Forward Movement's offices are located in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio , and have been since the company's inception. Executive Director Scott Gunn oversees a staff of eight full-time and eight part-time employees. Alexander McArthur Too Many Requests If you report this error to

715-631: Is to dispense afternoon tea." The New Zealand version of the Forward Movement gained its footing in 1893 with the help of Australians. Rev. H.W. Horwill lectured in Dunedin in June 1893 about the meaning of the movement, and - knowing his audience - emphasized the rights of women, including their right to Church leadership positions, public speaking, publishing in newspapers and social reform. The Movement came to life first in Wellington with two Congregational ministers,

770-440: Is unknown. The English antiquarian John Leland made an extensive journey through Wales c.1536–39 of which he recorded an itinerary. He passed through Aberafan, which he describes as a "poor village" surrounded by barren ground, though he also describes the area as heavily wooded, not much of which remains today. He mentions the use of the river mouth as a port. His portrayal of Aberafan as a small, struggling village suggests that

825-838: Is within The Episcopal Church, the rest going to other provinces of the Anglican Communion, primarily to the Anglican Church of Canada. In total, Forward Movement has subscribers in 68 nations. More than 100,000 copies of Forward Day by Day are distributed each year, at no charge, to prisons, jails, hospitals, convalescent homes, juvenile detention centers, and overseas military bases. Forward Movement publishes more than one hundred other titles, mostly pamphlets and booklets, on prayer, discipleship, worship, sacraments, Anglican history and spirituality, and pastoral concerns. Roughly thirty new print titles are issued each year. Distribution

880-525: The Episcopal Church in the United States , whose mission is to reinvigorate the life of the church. Since 1935, Forward Movement has published the quarterly devotional Forward Day by Day , as well as books and pamphlets that foster spiritual growth and encourage discipleship. As a self-sustaining agency of the church, Forward Movement relies on sales and donations to carry out its work. Forward Movement

935-452: The 10th century were all rescued from the steelworks site by the Talbot family and taken to Margam, where they are now in the museum, in the care of Cadw . The Baked Bean Museum of Excellence is a private museum in Port Talbot. In December 2018 the artist Banksy confirmed that he produced a mural painted on the corner of a garage close to Port Talbot steelworks. On one side it depicts

990-457: The 20th century, with Martyn Lloyd-Jones becoming a notable leader in Wales. Abandoning his Harley Street medical practice in 1927, Dr Lloyd-Jones became minister of Bethlehem Evangelical Church in Port Talbot , originally built as an outlying mission of a Calvinistic Methodist Church in the town centre. This church remains open. The current Forward Movement in the United States is a ministry of

1045-753: The Baptist's baptism of Jesus, which was watched by hundreds who had heard about it by word of mouth. By the time the first main part of the play was performed on Aberafan Beach at 3:00 pm, organisers estimated up to 6,000 people had gathered to watch. On Saturday, there were sequences in Llewellyn Street, the Castle Street underpass, Aberafan Shopping Centre , the Seaside Social and Labour Club in Sandfields and nearby Abbeyville Court. On Easter Sunday ,

1100-561: The Bristol Channel, the station comprises three squarish concrete buildings with flat roofs, set on the Margam ridge facing south-east and overlooking the Channel. The most north-westerly building retains the framework of a steel gantry, the base for a rectangular radar transmitter/receiver array, known as a 'bedstead array' from its wires and framework, and is believed to be a unique survivor within

1155-469: The British Isles. In 1970 a new deep-water harbour was opened by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip . This harbour was capable of discharging iron ore vessels of 100,000 deadweight tonnage (DWT), a tenfold improvement on the old dock. By the early 21st century, due to further modification and dredging, the harbour is capable of harbouring vessels of over 170,000 DWT. The borough of Port Talbot

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1210-545: The National Council gave a small subsidy during its first three years, Forward Movement soon became a self-supporting ministry, largely through literature sales. By the 1937 General Convention, Forward Movement had produced twenty-five tracts and booklets in addition to Forward Day by Day . All this was achieved through mostly volunteer labor, with the Diocese of Southern Ohio providing office space and support staff. The 1937 General Convention sought to integrate Forward Movement into

1265-908: The Pennant sandstone run north west-south-east and east–west. The coal seams arise from the South Wales Middle Coal Measures Formation, South Wales Upper Coal Measures Formation, South Wales Lower Coal Measures Formation, Rhondda Member and Brithdir Member. Pennant sandstone is an excellent construction rock and road stone. Faults have an orientation of North West-South East, east–west and north–south. All are normal faults which form extension processes. There are also many marine fossils bands. Marine fossils found in Port Talbot region include species of bivalves, gastropods and brachiopods. Terrestrial fossils include fern tree branches, trunks, leaves and roots. Traces of organism footprints can also be found. The drift geology average thickness

1320-860: The Reverends William A. Evans and G.H. Bradbury. Evans resigned from his parsonage in Nelson and Bradbury from his in Canterbury to move to Wellington . Evans had recently married the university graduate and suffragist Kate Edger whose ideas strongly influenced the Movement and drew other progressive thinkers such as Ernest Beaglehole ; Lily May Kirk and her future husband Arthur Atkinson ; and Maurice Richmond, later professor of law at Victoria University College. They held their first meeting on 27 August 1893, and began organising public lectures and classes on history, literature, philosophy, civics and economics. Their work

1375-658: The Rhondda Member and Brithdir Member. The sandstone formed in Carboniferous swamps 300 million years ago. Pennant sandstone is a micacous sandstone which has a brown colouration with areas of red staining where iron from pyrite in coal has weathered creating a rust colouration. Lower land areas are predominantly Pennant sandstone within the South Wales Coal Measures Group . There is a variety of drift deposits in Port Talbot. Sandfields area of Port Talbot

1430-680: The Taibach area of Port Talbot to over 20 metres (65 ft). Rivers in the region including the River Afan (Aberafan), River Neath (Baglan Bay), Ffrwdwyllt (Taibach), Arnallt Brook (Taibach), Baglan Brook (Baglan), River Kenfig (Morfa Beach) and other rivers are fast flowing and are highly influenced by their mouths (end of the rivers, tidal region). A spout can be found in Baglan Park in the Baglan region of Port Talbot. Many open and uncovered reservoirs exist in

1485-928: The Wesleyan Methodists, the Primitive Methodists, and the Baptists. With the rise of Lily May Kirk Atkinson (now married) to the national presidency of the Women's Christian Temperance Union of New Zealand, the return of Rev. Evans to the Congregational ministry in 1904, and the Supreme Court justice Sir Robert Stout becoming chancellor at the University of New Zealand , the Forward Movement in New Zealand began to lose its most ardent voices. The movement continued into

1540-634: The West London Mission to Methodist churches there. He was met with great enthusiasm, and the New Zealand Railway Commissioners gave him a free pass over all the railways of the colony. Rev. Pearse was a popular storyteller, but he did not hesitate to offend those women who were in the throes of an eminently successful suffrage movement. In July 1891 he declared in Sydney Australia that women were "a waste product whose chief use

1595-489: The Wikimedia System Administrators, please include the details below. Request from 172.68.168.150 via cp1114 cp1114, Varnish XID 451096044 Upstream caches: cp1114 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Fri, 29 Nov 2024 06:52:22 GMT Port Talbot Port Talbot ( / ˌ p ɔːr t ˈ t ɔː l b ə t / , UK also / p ɔːr -, p ə -, - ˈ t æ l b ə t , - ˈ t ɒ l b ə t / )

1650-426: The ages of 16 and 64 were economically inactive. 60,100 residents, that is 70.3 percent, between the ages of 16 and 64 were economically active. Port Talbot has a variety of bedrock and drift types. South East of Port Talbot is dominated by Pennant sandstone which forms this high relief area including Mynydd Margam, Mynydd Dinas and the other mountains. The pennant sandstone is made up of two formations which are

1705-639: The air quality had improved to meet the WHO 's recommended limit of 10   μg/m . According to the Office for National Statistics the Neath Port Talbot population had increased by 1.8 percent, from around 139,800 in 2011 to 142,300 in 2021. This was higher than the overall increase for Wales (1.4 percent), where the population grew by 44,000 to 3,107,500. In 2021 Neath Port Talbot ranked ninth for total population out of 22 local authority areas in Wales. This amounts to

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1760-420: The area were mentioned during Roman times. Ffynnon Pedr is a holy well which flows from the hillside through a 16 in × 16 in (400 mm × 400 mm) stone culvert in Margam. This may have been a water supply for Margam Abbey, 1 ⁄ 2 mile (800 metres) to the east. The Cross of Brancuf an early Christian Sculptured Stone which stands in the church of St Catharine at Baglan. It

1815-643: The bay between the River Afan and the River Neath . The other beach in Port Talbot is Margam Sands, popularly known as Morfa Beach . The north-western edge of the town is marked by the River Neath. A landmark in the town is the Port Talbot Steelworks . With heavy industry and an urban motorway, Port Talbot was reported as having the worst air pollution in Wales in 2005 with a PM 10 particulate level of 30   μg/m (micrograms per cubic metre). By 2018

1870-529: The demise of West Glamorgan County Council in 1996, Port Talbot borough council was merged with Neath and part of Lliw Valley Districts to create the new unitary authority of Neath Port Talbot County Borough. The Civic Centre is located in Port Talbot, and the town is represented by three of the 64 councillors that make up the county council. The centre of the town is covered by the Port Talbot ward for local council elections. Port Talbot occupies an area of low lying coastal plain between Swansea Bay to

1925-403: The executive committee continue publishing literature for the church. To indicate the ministry's nature more clearly, the name was changed in 1949 to Forward Movement Publications. Forward Movement's first publication was Forward Day by Day , a quarterly devotional magazine which has been published continuously since 1935. Circulation is now 300,000 printed copies per quarter, 84 percent of which

1980-580: The inspiration of a group of local young people, was awarded a five-year licence by Ofcom to serve Port Talbot and Neath. Afan FM broadcast from the AquaDome leisure complex on Aberafan Seafront . Following a December 2009 fire at the AquaDome, Afan FM moved to Aberafan House, adjacent to the town's shopping centre. Afan FM closed in December 2011 was shut down following an unexpected tax bill. The town has been served by several newspapers. The Port Talbot Guardian

2035-742: The larger church by naming the new presiding bishop, Rt. Rev. Henry St. George Tucker of Virginia , as chair of the Forward Movement Commission, although Bishop Hobson continued to oversee operations in Cincinnati until 1976 (even after his retirement as bishop in 1969). Gilbert Symons became the Forward Movement's first editor and held the post until 1950. He wrote many of the early issues of Forward Day by Day , in addition to dozens of other titles. The Diocese of Southern Ohio paid Symons's salary, though he devoted nearly all his time to Forward Movement. The diocese also provided rent-free office space (though expenses were shared) in downtown Cincinnati (although for

2090-495: The next day. Port Talbot is served by several Independent Local Radio stations: Hits Radio South Wales , its sister station Greatest Hits Radio South Wales , Swansea Bay Radio , Heart South Wales and Nation Radio Wales . Radio Phoenix also operates a 24-hour hospital radio service for the patients and staff of Neath Port Talbot Hospital in Baglan Moors . In 2005 the area was granted its first radio station when Afan FM ,

2145-693: The pioneer photographer, William Henry Fox Talbot . The Talbots were patrons of Margam Abbey, and also built Margam Castle . Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), a Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Glamorgan from 1830 until his death, saw the potential of his property as a site for an extensive ironworks , which opened in early 1831. The remains of a Chain Home Low early warning radar station are situated in Margam Country Park , dating from World War II ( c.  1941–1943 ). Designed to guard against enemy surface craft and submarines in

2200-406: The port was not in great use, especially as traffic to and from Margam Abbey would have ceased following its dissolution in 1536. The area of the parish of Margam lying on the west bank of the lower Afan became industrialised following the establishment of a copperworks in 1770. The Afan was diverted and a dock was opened in 1839 named for the Talbot family, local landowners who were related to

2255-430: The production returned to Aberafan Beach as part of the finale. A trial was performed on Civic Square before a procession from Station Road, with the final scene, "the cross", at Aberafan seafront. By the time the procession had reached the seafront close to where it had begun 72 hours earlier, organisers estimate over 13,000 people had come to watch on the small roundabout. In April 2012, Michael Sheen returned to attend

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2310-421: The region. Water has been channelled into ditches in industrial areas of Port Talbot. There are four comprehensive schools situated within the Port Talbot area: Glan Afan Comprehensive School and Sandfields Comprehensive School closed in 2016. A campus of Neath Port Talbot College is located in the Margam area. The Margam campus was previously called Afan College. The University of South Wales has

2365-411: The station with services westbound to Neath and Swansea and West Wales Line and eastbound to Bridgend , Cardiff Central and London Paddington . Trains also run via Hereford and Shrewsbury to Crewe and Manchester Piccadilly . The new £5.6 million Integrated Transport hub was completed in 2017, linking Port Talbot Parkway with new bus and taxi links. This also included extensive upgrades to

2420-481: The town. The 2017 crime drama television series Bang is set in Port Talbot. Terry Gilliam has recounted how he was inspired to create the movie Brazil after hearing a transistor radio play the song Aquarela do Brasil on the beach at Port Talbot. Port Talbot is served by the South Wales Main Line at Port Talbot Parkway railway station . Great Western Railway and Transport for Wales serve

2475-676: The unofficial leader of the "Forward Movement" in the British Methodist denominations. The movement encouraged the building of Methodist Central Halls as social work centres as well as meeting-places. Hughes founded the Methodist Times in 1885, and the movement became closely associated with Liberal politics in the UK. In a mission tour of New Zealand and Australia in 1891, the Cornish Methodist Rev. Mark Guy Pearse brought stories of

2530-415: The vestry of St Catharine's church sits a cross-slab dating from the 8th–10th century CE. It is intricately decorated with a Celtic-style cross formed out of knotwork (cord-plait knotwork) and interlacing; the ends of each arm are probably of a Latin design. Also, there is a Latin inscription: FECIT BRANCUF or perhaps BRANCU which when translated reads 'was made by Brancuf'. However, the person known as Brancuf

2585-458: The west (within the Bristol Channel) and the hills and valleys of Margam Moors (which are part of the wider South Wales valleys) to the south. The town is built along the eastern rim of Swansea Bay in a narrow strip of coastal plain surrounding the River Afan estuary. Swansea is visible on the opposite side of the bay. The local beach is known as Aberafan Sands and is situated along the edge of

2640-425: The whole of the emerging conurbation. The earliest evidence of humans in the Port Talbot area has been found on the side of Mynydd Margam where Bronze Age farming ditches can be found from 4,000 BC. There were Iron Age hill forts on Mynydd Dinas, Mynydd Margam, Mynydd Emroch and other nearby hills. Mynydd Hawdref contains remains of an ancient Iron Age village. The Margam deer herd dates from Norman times but deer in

2695-592: The world premiere of the feature-length film The Gospel of Us based on The Passion. The premiere was held at the Apollo Cinema (now the Reel Cinema ) on the Aberafan seafront close to where The Passion took place. Tickets for the premiere sold out weeks before the showing; all six screens showed the film simultaneously. The film was also shown daily from Easter Sunday to the following Thursday prior to its UK-wide release

2750-399: Was 31,550 in 2021, comprising about a fifth of the 141,931 population of Neath Port Talbot. Modern Port Talbot is a town formed from the merging of multiple villages, including Baglan , Margam , and Aberafan . The name 'Port Talbot' first appears in 1837 as the name of the new docks built on the south-east side of the river Afan by the Talbot family. Over time it came to be applied to

2805-634: Was a weekly paper published by Media Wales , part of the Trinity Mirror group, but ceased publication in October 2009. The Swansea-based daily South Wales Evening Post and the weekly Courier and Tribune are distributed in the town and are published by Media Wales , part of the Reach plc group. The Welsh-language song competition Cân i Gymru is usually filmed in Port Talbot. TV programmes such as Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures have filmed in

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2860-459: Was around 9 percent. Female unemployment was around 6 percent in 2000. In 2010, 26.2 percent of children and young persons (under the age of 20) in Neath Port Talbot county borough were living in relative poverty , higher than the 22.2 percent Welsh average. According to the Office for National Statistics , between April 2012 to March 2013 25,400 residents, that is 7.8 percent, between

2915-476: Was created during a time when the Episcopal Church seemed weary and divided. The 51st General Convention in 1934 charged the newly chartered Forward Movement to “reinvigorate the life of the church and to rehabilitate its general, diocesan and parochial work.” Bishop Henry Hobson of Southern Ohio chaired the Forward Movement Commission, which consisted of five bishops, five priests, and ten laymen. Although

2970-482: Was created in November 1921, incorporating Margam, Cwmafan and Aberafan. It was therefore 85 years after the phrase 'Port Talbot' was first used that it became officially recognised as the town's name. Port Talbot was part of the historic county of Glamorgan . The 1974 county council re-organisation split Glamorgan into three new counties, and Port Talbot became one of the four districts of West Glamorgan . Following

3025-617: Was well received, and by 1895 they had begun publishing The Citizen . Some examples of the contents were described in an advertisement notice in the (Wellington) Evening Star in February 1896: During a Congregational Union convention in Wellington in early 1896 the ministers revised their Articles of Constitution to give "members working in mission stations or in forward movement missions" the same standing as pastors of regular congregations. The Forward Movement caught on in other churches, including

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