Stephen Henry Jones is a Welsh athlete who set the world record in the marathon in his first completed race at that distance at the Chicago Marathon in 1984, with a time of 2:08:05.
Steve Jones speaking to a running group in Boston, August 2018
Steve Jones winning the Swindon (UK) Half Marathon in October 1984
Ebbw Vale is a town at the head of the valley formed by the Ebbw Fawr tributary of the Ebbw River in Wales. It is the largest town and the administrative centre of Blaenau Gwent county borough. The Ebbw Vale and Brynmawr conurbation has a population of roughly 33,000. It has direct access to the dualled A465 Heads of the Valleys trunk road and borders the Brecon Beacons National Park.
Looking north over Ebbw Vale from Hilltop
Ebbw Vale Steelworks in 1969, by this time under the control of British Steel Corporation
Ebbw Vale town centre
Entrance to Festival Park shopping outlet