World-famous street artist Banksy has claimed responsibility for a new mural that mysteriously appeared in Port Talbot, Wales.
The new mural, which seems to comment on the town's industrial heritage, appeared on two walls of a garage in Taibach area of Port Talbot overnight.
A video posted to Banksy's official Instagram account on Wednesday afternoon shows close-ups of the finished piece.
Soundtracked by the children's song Little Snowflake, the camera focuses on the painting, which shows a child dressed for snow playing in the falling ash and smoke from a fire in a skip, before ascending to show the nearby steelworks which loom over the town.
"They've not dropped a Banksy on us have they?" asks a man, apparently a local resident, at the end of the video.
The video was captioned with the simple message: "Season's greetings".
The owner of the garage, Ian Lewis, 55, a steelworker for the town's Tata Steel steelworks, said he first saw the artwork when images began to spread on Facebook on Tuesday evening, and had been guarding it ever since.
The father-of-one said: "At first I didn't really think much of it. I didn't even know if it was my garage. But then I had a look and saw it was.
"I thought it was good, but I didn't think it was a Banksy. It's now gone viral, and there's just been an explosion (in interest).
"I didn't know much about Banksy up until about last year. A friend visited Bristol and she showed me some photographs she'd taken of his work."
Mr Lewis said he thought his hometown was chosen for the artwork due to headlines over air pollution due to the steelworks.
In May, the World Heath Organisation (WHO) had to apologise after it admitted figures identifying Port Talbot as the most polluted town in the UK were wrong.
The global body said Port Talbot's air pollution was measured at 9.6853 micrograms, just under half of the figure it had originally given the town, and below WHO national guideline of 10 micrograms.
On Wednesday afternoon workers for Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council erected metal fencing around the garage wall.
The artwork's appearance comes in the same week the Government scrapped the Severn toll on crossings between England and Wales.
In a statement given to ITV News, a spokeswoman for Banksy said: "Just how tight is Bxxxx?
"What is believed to be the graffiti artists first foray into Wales has coincided with the scrapping of the Severn Bridge toll. Was the £5 charge all that was stopping him? Will we see lots more in the future?"
Additional reporting by Press Association.
