Partner and Stakeholder Meeting Ammanford Miners Theatre 14

Partner and Stakeholder Meeting Ammanford Miners Theatre 14 th 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

‘This is Our Heritage’ Project locations 3 17 16 18 5 20 11 1 2 7 4 8 21 10 9 6 19 22 12 13 14 15

‘This is Our Heritage’ Project locations 3 17 16 18 5 19 20 1 2 7 4 8 10 Troedyrhiw Communities First 9 6 21 22 12 13 14 15

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 The Ironmaster’s House Trevithick’s Engine • Interpretation planned: – – – Interpretive panels Heritage trail leaflet Education resource pack Guided walk training Website & book

“This is Our Heritage” 2008

‘This is Our Heritage’ Project locations New expressions of interest 3 17 16 18 5 20 11 1 2 7 4 8 21 10 9 6 19 22 12 13 14 15

Programme • Workshops programme – 17 th & 24 th January (Barry & Merthyr) – 28 th February (Swansea) – 20 th March (Blaenavon) • Interpretation plans to HERIAN by end of March • Deadline for ‘Expressions of Interest’ is 19 th 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 sympathetic to character and location • Anniversary year in 2008

Design Concept – 9 Arches • Solar scheme proposed • A 465 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 • 50 th 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. 5 million 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 Media 4 Award

Unearth the hidden treasures of the Genwenthe birth of the Industrial Revolution in Carmarthenshire Mining & Quarrying Mining Romans Bell Pit Slant Deep Shaft Quarrying Genwen Glynea Brick Works Use of Stone in Village Inventions & Innovations Water Pumping Production of Pure Metals Transport Development Tram Road Pencoed Colliery Evans & Beyon tram road The Canal Yspitty Canal River Loughor The Railway !st Railway line Llanelly Railway & Dock Company Loughor Rail Disaster Shipping Export of Coal Family Dynasties Chauncey Townsend Stepney Family Golden Grove Vaughans General Warde R. J. Neville Bornville Industrial Revolution—Bynea & the Outside World David Treithick’s Steam Engine Export of Engineering expertise to the rest of the world Copperworks Leadworks Tinplate The people who worked in these industries and their stories & disasters Environmental Impact & reclamation Bynea. The Story Johnah Rhys—Pig Farmer, Lay preacher & Father of Welsh Rubgy Red Cow Innslates — Steel workers for beer Stayby Inn & Toll House Crossing the river Maggie Jones— Last Coal fired Chippie

Genwen Quarry

Genwen Quarry • • Funding (CCW, WAG, Cydcoed, 1 Fund) 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 3 G’s Merthyr Tydfil / Penywaun Community First Group