Link to the project where you can find out more:
https://taniocymru.com/what-once-stood-the-mosaic-project
Rachel Taylor, Project Officer (Heritage) for Linc wants to get the message out about the Heritage Project they are running:
‘The project is funded by The National Lottery Heritage Fund. It aim’s to celebrate and preserve the legacies of Dyffryn Lower and Caewern House in Neath. We plan to invite members of the local communities to share their memories with us, which will then be recorded on People’s Collection Wales and on the What Once Stood website which is currently being built. We are currently recruiting volunteers who will be able to access training from the Oral History Society in recording those stories and from People’s Collection Wales in digitisation. They will also have the opportunity to undertake archival research and be supported with that. We plan to run some memory sharing days once we have those volunteers in place.
There is also a community arts element to the project that is being run by Tanio Arts, which will see the tiles from Dyffryn reused to make an art installation that will be installed at the site. Artists have been commissioned for this but there will be opportunities for the public to take part in some mosaic making over the summer with their work also being part of the new development. There will also be a number of interpretation boards that will document the history of the school.
We are also working with the local schools and will be taking them on a number of school trips. We have already started this, and recently paid for a whole school trip for Central School to Margam Park, which went brilliantly.
If anyone would like to become involved, they can contact us on WOS@linc-cymru.co.uk.
I hope that’s helpful 😊
Rachel
Rachel Taylor
Project Officer (Heritage)’
