Edited sentence: aberafan lost its charicter and it has never recovered from the bustling shopping town that it once was.in 1964 work started on the new m4 motorway which passes above aberafan and soon after it was built,the local council demolished the heart of aberafan,losing housing and businesses so they could build a shopping centre.richard burton and anthony hopkins were born here (port Talbot) and if anthony hopkins was to return home now he would not believe his eyes at the eyesore that has become of this town,shame,shame,shame