There’s a sense of melancholy when I ask Llanelli businessman David Craddock how he has seen his town change over the decades.
“It’s difficult to think back to what Llanelli was really like so many years ago. It’s completely different now to what it was,” he says. “I wish I could go back 45 years and appreciate everything we had.”
Mr Craddock, who is a director at estate agents’ Davies Craddock on John Street in the town centre, has been a self-employed businessman in Llanelli for 45 years and has watched first hand its economic decline.