Media coverage
The climax to our World War One project
There was tremendous coverage of the latter stage of our World War One commemoration - especially the postcard project.
ITV Wales ran a lovely report, talking to residents, pupils at Ninian Park Primary School - during a visit by Grangetown Local History Society, as well as society member Michelle Darby Charles. Watch the video above and read more here
The BBC Wales news website has also featured the project, talking to residents and the history society.
The Western Mail and South Wales Echo both ran double page features on the It Touched Every Street book and our poppy map on Saturday. The story was also reproduced on Wales Online on Remembrance Sunday and on Monday in the Daily Mirror online.
There was also another terrific video item with residents and businesses talking about their postcards, produced by the Wales Online team. A feature on the Grangetown
war memorial project appeared in the South Wales Echo on March 19th 2014.
Click on the image above or on the link here
to read it (PDF reader required).
A follow-up feature was in the
Echo on April 12th. Click on the image above or on the link
here to read it (PDF reader required) or read
the version on Wales Online The story was also featured
in the Daily Mail.
ITV Wales featured the story of Alf Norman and the Grangetown memorial in July, interviewing Zena Mabbs and Rita Spinola from the history society.
A
BBC Wales News feature on the names behind the memorial, ahead of the
commemoration in August.
A Wales
Online report of the service and families gathering in Grange Gardens,
while the article appeared in both Wales On Sunday (see above) and South Wales
Echo.
There was a double-page spread on our World War One memorial walk phone app in the South Wales Echo on February 11th 2015 and also in Wales Online
A report of the commemoration event