AM celebrates the 'Pots and Pieces' project

Gwenda Thomas AM was delighted to join with members of the Swansea Canal Society and pupils of Llangiwg Primary School [pictured left] to celebrate the 'Pots and Pieces' project.

The Swansea Canal Society had applied for funding to The Awards for All Wales grant supported by Gwenda Thomas AM, town council & local historical society. The project 'Pots & Pieces' was a Mosaic depicting the name 'Riverside' on the building now leased by Arena Pontardawe from Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council using sherds of Ynysmeudwy pottery unearthed by members of the Swansea Canal Society when the new bypass was being constructed.

Llangiwg Primary School children were also involved, making their own pieces of new pottery instructed by the Artist David Marchant who then incorporated them with the old pieces of Ynysmeudwy sherds to make the Mosaic that can be seen on the side of the Riverside building at the Glantawe Park site.