A Massive Thank You...
Conwy is an amazing place to live and work. We've a rich heritage in our buildings and historical sites but there is also a community heritage that also has value.
This project aims to explore our food heritage. We wanted to:
- know more about our cultural identity through our food heritage
- explore how our heritage has been and is protected through social actions like food events.
Over twelve months (Dec 2016 - Dec 2017) we held events in Conwy, meeting with some of the local businesses that are keeping our food heritage alive. We collected local memories, recipes and stories and had an exhibition of everything we found.
We’re really thankful to everyone who was involved and the Heritage Lottery Fund for helping fund this through their Young Roots. If you want to know more, share a memory or get involved then contact us!
Have a look at our blog to see some of the things we discovered!
We're on Tour!
Jeff and Megan are part of the team that is taking the Pogim Food Heritage Project on tour around some of Conwy County's Primary Schools.
November - Month Twelve
November! It's the end of November and the end of our Food Heritage Project - but not really! .
Parisella's Trip
Exhibition Day
It’s free. It’s at Conwy Comrades Club. Come drop in as part of your feast weekend. #conwy #conwyfeast
We launched our Conwy Food Heritage schools tour at the very excellent Ysgol Llangelynnin! #conwy #food #heritage #school #primaryschool
Bees Wales
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop
Parisella's Trip
Today the Conwy Food Heritage tour stopped at Ysgol Ffordd Dyffryn for a Junior assembly and a workshop with the delightful year 6.
#conwy #llandudno #food #heritage #northwalescoast #primaryschool #education
Food Drawings
Conwy Orchard Film
Marchpane Workshop
Aberffraw Biscuits - James Shepherd
Plas Mawr Film
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop
Food Drawings
Bees Wales
Plas Mawr Trip
We had a great time yesterday filming at @wildhorsebeer Definitely some interesting things brewing! ;) #brewery #craftbeer #fridayfeelin
Pat's Memories Film
Plas Mawr Trip
Then and Now
Bees Wales
Enjoyed learning how food was central to everyday life and how it influenced our language! @heritagelotteryfund @nationaltrust
Exhibition Day
Exhibition Day
Conwy Mussels
Popty Conwy Bakery
It’s free. It’s at Conwy Comrades Club. Come drop in as part of your feast weekend. #conwy #conwyfeast
School Tours
Plas Mawr Trip #history #pantry #plasmawr
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop
We finished off our Conwy Food Heritage schools tour spending a very full day with Ysgol Deganwy’s lower juniors on Monday and doing an assembly and Year 3 three workshop at Ysgol San Siôr. We’ve had a blast sharing this project with nearly 500 enthusiastic pupils! #conwy #food #heritage #school
Conwy Mussels
What your Thursday needs is a shaky video of a cormorant that I filmed while I was waiting for the #conwymussels guys to arrive at the pontoon in the estuary. —Jeff
@halandrad discussing our @heritagelotteryfund project with BBC reporter @C_Dearden.
Catch the show Country Focus on BBC Wales on Sunday and listen out for the Pogim team!
Baravelli's Bean to Bar Film
Plas Mawr Trip
Conwy Mussels
Edward's Butchers Film - Short Version
Check out @wildhorsebeer's brewing and bottling stages of last month's limited edition Melée Medieval Ale. Link in bio! #foodheritage #conwy #beer #realale
Bee Wales - All kitted up in our Bee Suits.
We were thoroughly inspired by Ieuan Edwards' passion for good food and good farms. If you get the chance to meet him, take it!
#conwy #butchershop #farm
School Tours
Conwy Mussels
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop
Look guys! Part of our @heritagelotteryfund exhibition is coming together!
#pogim #office #conwy #heritage #food #history
Edward's Butchers Film - Long Version
Parisella's Tour
Fish & Chips
Edward's Butchers
Baravelli's Bean to Bar Film with Narration
Food Drawings
Clwb Yr Efail
We launched our Conwy Food Heritage schools tour at the very excellent Ysgol Llangelynnin! #conwy #food #heritage #school #primaryschool
Popty Conwy Bakery
Plas Mawr Trip
Working on the new blog for our Heritage Project - can't wait to share it with you guys! #heritageproject #pogim #blog #pogimteam
Did you know, this building was a restaurant and commercial hotel? They sold soup costing a half-groat (2d) per bowl - thats about 2 pence! #conwy #foodheritage @fatface_conwy
We finished off our Conwy Food Heritage schools tour spending a very full day with Ysgol Deganwy’s lower juniors on Monday and doing an assembly and Year 3 three workshop at Ysgol San Siôr. We’ve had a blast sharing this project with nearly 500 enthusiastic pupils! #conwy #food #heritage #school
It was great to meet Chris Dearden today and talk about @heritagelotteryfund project! Exciting times!
Food Is More Than Food
Exhibition Day
Plas Mawr Trip
Barivelli's Chocolate Workshop
Great workshop - learning about 'What is Heritage?'
So much heritage here at the Albion Ale House - great to see local businesses still going strong. Thank you to @worldwidenick0 and the team for getting involved!
Our next stop on the food heritage tour - Aberconwy House @nationaltrust
Bees Wales
January's blog is up and ready for you to read. See what we were up to in January! Link's in the bio :0)
#pogim #conwy #blog #heritage #food #foodheritage
Wild Horse Brewery Film - Long Version
Checking the bees last Saturday.
School Tours
Our latest film is about honey bees and why beekeeping is so important.
#bee #bees #honeybee #honey #beekeeping #conwy #northwales
Parisella's Trip
One of our favourite things is discovering local food memories! #Heritage #History #pogim #Food #Memories
Then and Now
Bwyd Bendigedig Film
Exhibition Day
Food Drawings
Food Exhibition Banner
The finest bone china on display for guests at Aberconwy house last weekend! A great lesson in heritage! #heritage #food #conwy #nationaltrust
Marchpane Workshop
Exhibition Banner
Wild Horse Brewery Film - Short Version
We will be at Comrades Club next Tuesday 9:45am–noon, gathering some more stories - why not come along and share some memories with us!
Plas Mawr Trip
Trying some Conwy food in our first Food Heritage Project team meeting!
Plas Mawr Trip
Today the Conwy Food Heritage tour stopped at Ysgol Ffordd Dyffryn for a Junior assembly and a workshop with the delightful year 6.
#conwy #llandudno #food #heritage #northwalescoast #primaryschool #education
Wild Horse Brewery
Clwb Yr Efail
Exhibition Banner
Plas Mawr has barely changed!
Exhibition Day
We're heading off to the Bee Keeping Centre Wales next week to get up close and personal with the hard workers behind Conwy's annual honey fair! #bees #Foodheritage #ConwyHoneyFair
Plas Mawr Trip
Clwb Yr Efail
Pat's Memories
Food Drawings
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop - Ice cream afterwards!
Edward's Butchers
Great workshop - learning about 'What is Heritage?'
Plas Mawr Trip
Conwy Mussels
Once J. Jared Williams' high street store, 20th Century Modern's quirky retro antique shop retains all of the outside building features! @heritagelotteryfund
#heritage #conwy #northwales
Parisella's Trip
Parisella's Trip
Popty Conwy Bakery
Food Drawings
Food Drawings
Plas Mawr Trip
Exhibition Day
Plas Mawr Trip
Pancake day is coming up, guys - what's your favourite topping? (I'm partial to maple syrup myself)
Conwy Mussels Film
Plas Mawr Trip
Intro to bee keeping!
Conwy Orchard Visit
Great workshop - learning about 'What is Heritage?'
Pat's Memories
Barivelli's Chocolate Workshop
Aberffraw Biscuits
Our young people thoroughly enjoyed themselves at Barivelli's Artisan Chocolatiers! #chocolate #chocolates #darkchocolate #whitechocolate #chocolatelover #milkchocolate #chocolatebar #chocolatelovers #chocolateaddict #instachocolate #ILoveChocolate #chocolatelove #rawchocolate #chocolatelife #chocolateheaven #deathbychocolate
Learning some useful tips for archiving the memories and footage we've been collecting
The blog is live! We're excited to share with you what we get up to.
Have a read and let us know what you think.
#pogim #blog #heritage #conwy
Edward's Butchers
Is Emma Baravelli shooting magic flavour rays into the mixer to make her sublime chocolate? You'll have to wait for the full film to find out.
#chocolate #chocolatier #conwy @_baravellis
Exhibition Day
Bees Wales
A little souvenir from the hives.
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop
School Tours
Pick Me, Eat Me Group
Thanks, Margaret at Conwy Country Market (Comrades Club), for sharing your mum’s recipe with us! What’s your bara brith recipe? #barabrith.
Edward's Butchers
Many pancakes were consumed on our heritage project workshop this evening!
#conwy #pancakes #pancakeday #pogim #heritage
Clwb Yr Efail
Pancake Day
Bees Wales Visit
Aberffraw Biscuits - James Shepherd
We are collecting memory and recipes in Conwy Library today!
Aberffraw Biscuits
Pat talking about her food memories and what Conwy looked like during WW2! #FoodHeritage #Heritage #Conwy #History @heritagelotteryfund
Originally the Black Horse Inn (late 1700s), Popty Conwy Bakery has a rich food history.
Bodlondeb Allotments
School Tours
Conwy Mussels
Bees Wales
Exhibition Day
Exhibition Day
The Eagles Building's food heritage is still going strong. Thank you to the lovely people at Fishermans Chip Shop for getting involved!
Share a memory with us!
Conwy Mussels
We’re looking forward to getting suited and (wellington) booted this weekend for our bee keeper day!
Wild Horse Tournament Ale
Pat's Memories
Bodlondeb Allotments
Aberffraw Biscuits
All day Saturday 28 October at Conwy Comrades Club. Three brand new films plus a bunch of other good Conwy Food Heritage stuff.
#conwy #conwyfeast
Toll House Visit
Plas Mawr Trip
Food Drawings
We're at Conwy Library collecting people's food memories. If you're around, come say hi and share a few stories with us!
#pogim #food # #memories #conwy #conwylibraries
Keeping Bees Film
Bees Wales
Aberffraw Biscuits Film
Parisella's Trip
Our Heritage Foodie Group
Bees Wales Visit
Parisella's Ice Cream Film
Exhibition Day
