Partner and Stakeholder Meeting

Ammanford Miners Theatre

14th December 2007

“This is Our Heritage”2007

Gareth Kiddie

This is Our Heritage

Aims:• Help community heritage groups develop

Interpretation Plans• Link plans to the over-arching theme: ‘Wales the first industrial nation…created

by genius, moulded from the land, crafted by many hands’

• Establish a ‘network’ of community heritage interpretation projects

Activities & Results

• Over 70 individuals attending workshops

• 22 community groups developing heritage interpretation plans

• 18 plans complete and seeking funding or being implemented

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Troedyrhiw Communities First

• Partnership project with Merthyr Tydfil County Borough Council

• Aims:– Encouraging community involvement in local

heritage conservation– Attracting visitors by making the most of

proximity to existing walking & cycling trails

Troedyrhiw Communities First

• Themes:– Pioneering feats– Extraordinary people– Rich community life

• Interpretation planned:– Interpretive panels– Heritage trail leaflet– Education resource pack– Guided walk training– Website & book

The Ironmaster’s House

Trevithick’s Engine

“This is Our Heritage” 2008

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New expressions of interest

Programme

• Workshops programme– 17th & 24th January (Barry & Merthyr)– 28th February (Swansea)– 20th March (Blaenavon)

• Interpretation plans to HERIAN by end of March

• Deadline for ‘Expressions of Interest’ is 19th December!!

“Welcome to Our Heritage”

Christine Moore

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Herian Information Points Network

Kim Colebrook

Project Aims

• To encourage people to explore southern Wales and to discover the peoples stories

• By siting the kiosks at key attractions – to encourage visits to less known sites

• To encourage use of public transport, walking, etc

Operational sites• Operating• Merthyr TIC• Cardiff TIC• Cyfarthfa Castle• Cynon Museum• Rhondda Heritage Park• Blaina Museum• World Heritage Centre• Festival Park• Aberdulais Falls• Ynysfach Engine House

• Coming shortly• Dare Valley Country Park• Parc and Dare Theatre• Parc Bryn Bach• Big Pit

• Good Feedback

Trail of Light

Ruth Waycott

Trail of Light Update

– An initiative to celebrate the story of

industrial South Wales – Through floodlighting

buildings and historic features in the landscape

– With traditional architectural feature lighting, artwork installations and a Festival of Light.

Trail of Light Update

• Contract let to Gobbsmak Design

• Detailed designs, drawings, plans being prepared for 5 sites:– Aberdare: Gadlys Ironworks & Coliseum – Tredegar: Nye Bevan Stones, Tredegar Clock

Tower & 9 Arches Viaduct

Design Concept Tredegar Clock Tower

• Enhanced lighting scheme for this

restored landmark• Traditional approach -

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to character and location • Anniversary year in 2008

Design Concept – 9 Arches

• Solar scheme proposed

• A465 elevation lit with feature lights highlighting arches / new railings

Design Concept - Nye Bevan Stones

• Interactive scheme• Solar panels provide

light supply which changes colour / effect in response to noise levels

• 50th anniversary year for NHS in 2008 - may be appropriate to launch at this site

Design Concept – Gadlys Ironworks Complex

• Substantial scheme lighting up facades from engine house to Museum

• Proposed that it will be powered by ‘green energy’ from RCTBC’s power supplier.

Design Concept : The Coliseum

• Art deco approach, reflecting architecture and design of building

• Floodlighting to front elevation / entrance • Powered by ‘green energy’ from RCTBC’s power

supplier

“Bringing Our Past to the Centre Stage” –

Interpretation through Performance Pilot

Val Williams

Community Focused Interpretive Projects

Bynea Quarry, Llanelli

Richard Davie

Green Network• Aims to improve the urban environment for

community recreational use, to increase the biodiversity interest, and to involve the local communities.

• Successful strong partnership of statutory and community sectors

• Green Network as a partnership has secured in excess of £1.5million pounds of grant funding in the last three years

• Genwen Quarry is a site that has been identified by the partnership for regeneration

Genwen Quarry

• Situated in the village of Bynea, south east of Llanelli

• Site of mining & quarrying operations

• Cornish Beam End Pumping House

• Site that has become a tipping ground and has the serious issues with Japanese Knotweed

Genwen Quarry

Genwen Quarry

Genwen Quarry

• A feasibility study was undertaken March 2004 by Wardell Armstrong

• A master plan for the landscape regeneration produced

Genwen Quarry

• With Herian support the Green Network Partnership has researched and produced a Local Interpretation Plan of the site

• With the help of Local Historical Groups

• Historical Reference Books

• Helped to secure funding

• Lead to group winning the Media4Award

Unearth the hidden treasures of the Genwen- the birth of the Industrial Revolution in

Carmarthenshire

Mining & Quarrying

Transport Development

Family Dynasties

Industrial Revolution—Bynea

& the Outside World

Bynea- The Story

MiningRomansBell PitSlantDeep Shaft

QuarryingGenwenGlynea Brick WorksUse of Stone in Village

Inventions & Innovations

Water PumpingProduction of Pure Metals

Tram RoadPencoed CollieryEvans & Beyon tram road

The CanalYspitty CanalRiver Loughor

The Railway!st Railway lineLlanelly Railway & Dock CompanyLoughor Rail Disaster

ShippingExport of Coal

Chauncey Townsend

Stepney Family

Golden GroveVaughans

GeneralWarde

R.J. Neville

Bornville

David Treithick’sSteam Engine

Export of Engineering expertise to the rest of the world

CopperworksLeadworksTinplate

The people who worked in these industries and their stories & disasters

Environmental Impact & reclamation

Johnah Rhys—PigFarmer, Lay preacher & Father of Welsh Rubgy

Red Cow Innslates —Steel workers for beer

Stayby Inn & Toll HouseCrossing the river

Maggie Jones—Last Coal fired Chippie

Genwen Quarry

Genwen Quarry

• Funding (CCW, WAG, Cydcoed, 1Fund)

• Japanese Knotweed

• Mining Survey’s

• Community Consultation on final design plans

Afon Argoed

Anne Gibbs

Upper Tawe Valley

John Howie

The Upper Tawe Valley

‘If anyone has travelled further, it is because they have followed in the footsteps

of industrial giants!’

The Project

• Aims:– Enhance understanding of the heritage of the

Upper Tawe Valley– Provide improved access to local heritage

sites– Promote the area to a wider audience

Heritage in the Upper Tawe Valley

Themes

• Geological treasures

• Transport development

• Giants of the Industrial Revolution

• The ‘silicon valley’ of its time

• Transformation of the landscape and of the lives of people

Sites for interpretation

Mumbles, Swansea

Mike Hollyman

Questions

The Red Flag

3G’s Merthyr Tydfil / Penywaun Community First Group