{"id":674025,"date":"2026-07-04T21:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674025\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T21:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T21:13:09","slug":"briton-ferry-mural-painted-over-after-appearing-on-wall-without-permission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/674025\/","title":{"rendered":"Briton Ferry mural painted over after appearing on wall without permission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A mural of a 19th Century engineer which appeared on the side of a building has been painted over after the owner said they were not asked for permission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The image of Isambard Kingdom Brunel was done by artist Steve Jenkins on a property on Neath Road in Briton Ferry, Neath Port Talbot, and was funded and unveiled by Neath Port Talbot councillor Gareth Rice earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But the owner said no-one had contacted them about the plan and the painting came as a shock.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Brunel, who is described as one of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/history\/historic_figures\/brunel_kingdom_isambard.shtml\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;versatile and audacious&#8221;<\/a> engineers of his time, built Briton Ferry Dock to handle coal and goods for the Vale of Neath Railway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A mural of a 19th Century engineer which appeared on the side of a building has been painted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":674026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-674025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}