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! .
Exhibition Banner
Fish & Chips
Plas Mawr Trip
Food Drawings
Great workshop - learning about 'What is Heritage?'
Check out @wildhorsebeer's brewing and bottling stages of last month's limited edition Melée Medieval Ale. Link in bio! #foodheritage #conwy #beer #realale
Aberffraw Biscuits
Clwb Yr Efail
Our Heritage Foodie Group
Parisella's Trip
Share a memory with us!
Bodlondeb Allotments
Pat's Memories Film
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
Bees Wales
Exhibition Day
Exhibition Day
Aberffraw Biscuits - James Shepherd
Plas Mawr Trip
Toll House Visit
Our latest film is about honey bees and why beekeeping is so important.
#bee #bees #honeybee #honey #beekeeping #conwy #northwales
Plas Mawr Trip
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop
Pat's Memories
Bees Wales Visit
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
Bees Wales
Food Exhibition Banner
Plas Mawr Trip
Exhibition Day
Bees Wales
Edward's Butchers
Food Drawings
Parisella's Ice Cream Film
The Eagles Building's food heritage is still going strong. Thank you to the lovely people at Fishermans Chip Shop for getting involved!
Conwy Mussels
The finest bone china on display for guests at Aberconwy house last weekend! A great lesson in heritage! #heritage #food #conwy #nationaltrust
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
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
Food Is More Than Food
Barivelli's Chocolate Workshop
Many pancakes were consumed on our heritage project workshop this evening!
#conwy #pancakes #pancakeday #pogim #heritage
Exhibition Day
Conwy Mussels
Parisella's Trip
Edward's Butchers Film - Long Version
Exhibition Day
Conwy Mussels
Exhibition Day
Keeping Bees Film
Plas Mawr Trip
Intro to bee keeping!
Aberffraw Biscuits
We are collecting memory and recipes in Conwy Library today!
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop
Exhibition Banner
Checking the bees last Saturday.
Our next stop on the food heritage tour - Aberconwy House @nationaltrust
Wild Horse Brewery Film - Short Version
Parisella's Trip
Enjoyed learning how food was central to everyday life and how it influenced our language! @heritagelotteryfund @nationaltrust
Bees Wales
Originally the Black Horse Inn (late 1700s), Popty Conwy Bakery has a rich food history.
Food Drawings
Conwy Mussels Film
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop
Exhibition Day
Great workshop - learning about 'What is Heritage?'
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
Clwb Yr Efail
School Tours
Learning some useful tips for archiving the memories and footage we've been collecting
One of our favourite things is discovering local food memories! #Heritage #History #pogim #Food #Memories
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
Pat talking about her food memories and what Conwy looked like during WW2! #FoodHeritage #Heritage #Conwy #History @heritagelotteryfund
Plas Mawr Trip
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop - Ice cream afterwards!
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
Look guys! Part of our @heritagelotteryfund exhibition is coming together!
#pogim #office #conwy #heritage #food #history
Popty Conwy Bakery
Great workshop - learning about 'What is Heritage?'
Wild Horse Brewery
Conwy Mussels
Food Drawings
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
Pick Me, Eat Me Group
Popty Conwy Bakery
Plas Mawr Trip
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
Clwb Yr Efail
School Tours
Parisella's Tour
Pancake Day
Plas Mawr Trip
Marchpane Workshop
Bees Wales
Bodlondeb Allotments
Parisella's Trip
Edward's Butchers
Barivelli's Chocolate Workshop
Bees Wales
Aberffraw Biscuits - James Shepherd
Then and Now
School Tours
Then and Now
Conwy Mussels
It was great to meet Chris Dearden today and talk about @heritagelotteryfund project! Exciting times!
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
Plas Mawr has barely changed!
Food Drawings
Plas Mawr Trip
Food Drawings
Bwyd Bendigedig Film
Plas Mawr Trip
Parisella's Trip
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
Plas Mawr Trip
Exhibition Day
Pat's Memories
Exhibition Day
Conwy Orchard Visit
Bee Wales - All kitted up in our Bee Suits.
Aberffraw Biscuits Film
Baravelli's Bean to Bar Film with Narration
Aberffraw Biscuits
Wild Horse Tournament Ale
Parisella's Trip
Conwy Mussels
Trying some Conwy food in our first Food Heritage Project team meeting!
Plas Mawr Trip
@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!
Wild Horse Brewery Film - Long Version
Clwb Yr Efail
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop
Plas Mawr Trip
Baravelli's Chocolate Workshop
Food Drawings
Exhibition Day
School Tours
Popty Conwy Bakery
Conwy Mussels
Bees Wales Visit
Working on the new blog for our Heritage Project - can't wait to share it with you guys! #heritageproject #pogim #blog #pogimteam
Baravelli's Bean to Bar Film
It’s free. It’s at Conwy Comrades Club. Come drop in as part of your feast weekend. #conwy #conwyfeast
Marchpane Workshop
Plas Mawr Film
School Tours
We launched our Conwy Food Heritage schools tour at the very excellent Ysgol Llangelynnin! #conwy #food #heritage #school #primaryschool
Plas Mawr Trip #history #pantry #plasmawr
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
Exhibition Day
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 launched our Conwy Food Heritage schools tour at the very excellent Ysgol Llangelynnin! #conwy #food #heritage #school #primaryschool
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!
We had a great time yesterday filming at @wildhorsebeer Definitely some interesting things brewing! ;) #brewery #craftbeer #fridayfeelin
A little souvenir from the hives.
Pancake day is coming up, guys - what's your favourite topping? (I'm partial to maple syrup myself)
Thanks, Margaret at Conwy Country Market (Comrades Club), for sharing your mum’s recipe with us! What’s your bara brith recipe? #barabrith.
We’re looking forward to getting suited and (wellington) booted this weekend for our bee keeper day!
Edward's Butchers
Edward's Butchers Film - Short Version
Bees Wales
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
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
Edward's Butchers
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!
Conwy Orchard Film
Pat's Memories
It’s free. It’s at Conwy Comrades Club. Come drop in as part of your feast weekend. #conwy #conwyfeast
