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Happy heritage day
8:43am Tuesday 1st July 2008
Comments (1)BLAENAVON was in party mood last weekend, as it celebrated its status as a world heritage site.
After the town crier Derrick Price got festivities under way at 11.30am, the day was packed with events and activities including a performance by Blaenavon Town Band and a parade through its streets with local people donning traditional costumes.
This is the eighth year that it has held such an event after being pronounced a World Heritage site in December 2000 because of its ironworks and coalmining history.
Blaenavon's mayor Cllr Tom Huish said: "It is always a wonderful day with the whole town taking part.
"It's nice to see everyone enjoying themselves, with the schoolchildren taking part in the parade and learning about the town's history at the same time."
Around 7,000 people attended.
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predator, newbridge says...
9:59am Thu 3 Jul 08
if some mention were made of the strugle by some people against
torfaen borough council and british coal plans to create the biggest opencast coal site in the country at blaenavon, people ,to name a few,des williams, penry morgan, dave mccoy,even the ex MP for monmouth, roger evans. the whole story is in the pages of the press and south wales argus.the credit for world heritage at blaenavon has been userped by the very people who were hell bent on destroying its history.