Valleys town gets heritage centre lottery boost
A £2.9m lottery grant will help restore Newbridge Memorial Hall. Photo: Deryck Lewis
A grade II* listed community hall in a former mining town will receive a £2.9m lottery grant to fund its restoration as a heritage centre.
Visitors will be able learn more about the history and people of the Welsh valleys in the restored Newbridge Memorial Hall, which has the largest ballroom in south Wales and an art deco auditorium.
Volunteers whose training was funded through the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant will run the centre in Newbridge, Caerphilly.
The project is one of four whose HLF grants were announced this week. Other recipients include a project to restore the Scottish borders home of writer Sir Walter Scott.
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