How You Can Help...
Change wrought upon us like the mouldering iron of a bygone age Empty sad
and derelict, standing like mad shadows glaring at us threatening, do not
come in. The wind making its soulful crying like the buzzards and the owl.
Yet the morning light brings hope softening the shadows the small robin and
the wren darting back and forth twittering and calling...
"come and see the future lies within."
Small hopes and seeds to sew bees to keep and rot to stop.
Big dreams of jobs and power from Water to be a volunteer I think I oughta
How can you help?
You can like the Friends of the Crumlin Navigation Colliery Facebook page here to find out more about upcoming events. Come and join in every Saturday to help clean up the site, meet new people and have a cup of tea with friends. Every person helps to bring this incredible building back to the community.
Words from Gareth...
The Crumlin Navigation Colliery is a beautifully haunting series of eleven Grade 2 listed buildings. The Friends of the Crumlin Navigation Colliery come together every Saturday to help clean up the site in the hopes of transforming it into a community hub. Their dreams are ambitious but not unobtainable. They hope to restore the buildings for commercial and community use, creating jobs and an education centre, create a community space around the buildings and install green energy generation including a hydro-electric turbine in the river Ebbw to power the buildings, and a ground-source heating plant that will heat the buildings.
I chose this as the second episode to highlight the difference between a building transformed and a building awaiting transformation. Organised Kaos started with a closed down, boarded up church and has now become a space of creativity and community spirit. When facing the Colliery your head is filled endless possibilities. An enormous dream that bears a chance for positive change among the community, increase in jobs and work experience, arts and creative enterprises, and putting Crumlin on the map as a must visit location in Wales. In a building with bricks so full of history it seems a shame to deny younger generations to be a part of it's future.
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