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[email protected] 16/11/2012 11:39 In partnership with: Find out more at www.bgeffect.com Abertillery Foundry Gateway Key themes: Prosperous Communities & Learning Communities A landmark part of the £13million To inspire their designs, pupils were regeneration programme for taken on trips to Big Pit National Abertillery will be the Foundry Mining Museum and took part in an Bridge Gateway. Inspired by local art workshop facilitated by artist Becky collieries and interpreted by local Adams. Some pupils also visited the schoolchildren, the Foundry Gateway Guardian memorial and the former Project consists of a series of six sites of their local collieries - Cwmtillery spires with burning embers, which Colliery, Penybont and Grey Collieries, will represent the industrial past and Rose Heyworth Colliery, Six Bells provide a gateway to the commercial Colliery and Vivian Colliery. centre of the town. The project has allowed children to make connections with their parents and grandparents memories of the past, which will promoted a sense of local ownership of the Foundry Gateway Project between younger and older generations. Pupils from Abertillery Comprehensive School, Abertillery Primary School, Bryngwyn Primary School, Rose Heyworth Millennium School and St Illtyd’s Primary School all took part in a competition for the Foundry Blaenau Gwent County Borough Gateway Project in collaboration with Council is working towards installation Communities First.