Down in the valleys: the wonders of Wales – in pictures

Near Keeper’s Pond, Blaenavon 2022

Ken Grant: ‘When my father began to talk through ways to settle affairs, as old men tired of it all sometimes do, I told him I needed nothing. I already had the tools he’d given me when I first proved I could carry a job. I had no use for suits, or shirts bought in sales but never worn, and why would I hold on to family photographs that had lain in drawers across a working life that could never pause to look at such things? I asked for nothing, except for a painting that, steady and watching, had sat above his mantelpiece all my life’