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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Steven Morris

‘It will stay in our hearts’: Port Talbot prepares to bid farewell to its Banksy

Local children join in a candle-lit vigil in front of the Banksy mural Season’s Greetings in Port Talbot
Local children join in a candle-lit vigil in front of the Banksy mural Season’s Greetings in Port Talbot. Photograph: Francesca Jones/The Guardian

They sang, recited poems and reminisced fondly about that wonderful winter’s day when the town of Port Talbot woke to find a mural by the street artist Banksy on the walls of a steelworker’s garage.

Three years on, the piece – Season’s Greetings – is on the brink of leaving this industrial corner of south Wales, and residents gathered to bid farewell to an artwork they have come to love.

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