Conference
THE CIVIC TRUST FOR WALES • YMDDIRIEDOLAETH DDINESIG CYMRU

 

Tredegar town clock

Tredegar Town Clock
The Circle (Blaenau Gwent CBC)

The conference was supported by

Heritage Lottery Fund

Blaenau Gwent CBC

Gwent Record Office

Cadw

 

Discovering places: studying urban character

19 March 2010

ViTCC, Tredegar


Bringing local people and professionals together to investigate urban character

Market St  March 2010


Web galleries

Conference participants have submitted images of Tredegar taken before, during and after the conference, in response to an invitation to look at the character of the town with their own eyes.

Gallery 1: Pat Martin

Gallery 2: Stephen Rowson and Sarah Hensby

More to come


Feedback

Feedback comments received pdf

In the aftermath of this highly successful conference we have posted details of the presentations below.

If you were a participant you can download an electronic version of the feedback form here. Please send it to the Trust at Suite 1, West Wing, Windsor House, Windsor Lane, Cardiff CF10 3DE or e-mail to post[at]civictrustwales.org.

Feedback form (MS Word)

 


Judith Alfrey on characterisation

About Wales, March 2010: studying urban character (pdf): Judith Alfrey introduces urban characterisation, together with examples of the use of maps, census materials, images and oral recording in characterisation work.


Conference presentations

Judith Alfrey: Introducing urban characterisation pdf

Ian Morrison: Urban characterisation: revealing the personality of place pdf

Lise in delivery

Lise Brekmoe: A sense of place: communities and urban character pdf

Conference audio

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John Hilling: Introducing Tredegar and Judith Alfrey; Introducing urban characterisation (wma: 19.8mb)

Ian Morrison: Urban characterisation: revealing the personality of place
(wma: 18.51mb)

Lise Brekmoe: A sense of place: communities and urban character
(mp3: 16.2mb)

Phyllis Bowen remembers growing up in a Rhondda terrace (audio file used in Lise Brekmoe's presentation) (wma: 20mb)

Workshop outputs

Workshop 1: census returns pdf (336kb)
Workshop 2: maps pdf (188kb)

 

   
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