Always enjoy our out & about time with #TheVacantShopsAcademy in Abertillery and Tredegar (and today also looking in on Brynmawr).
Learned lots as ever with new #highstreet #placemaking projects to see (of which more in the next post).
But struck this trip by one of our favourite features – #streetart, wall art and, across the three towns, different ways of remembering characters from their past.
One we knew of from before and many of you will recognise – tho maybe not the Tredegar connection. The other two we looked up and followed the story afresh – which is the great thing about these installations.
Remembers. Reflects. Connects now with then. Maybe inspires all over again.
And in the main picture, how a next generation see things, the faces they choose to include, the why and how. Insightful.
Would love to hear examples of names from your town or city centre past (distant or recent), and the varying ways they’re present in the place today.
