DOA / AOD - DWR is produced and co-ordinated by:

Peter Guimarães Wright

Tel 07786 282411 - e-mail to doaaoddwr @ hotmail.com

This collection is at the heart of the Deeside Independent Voluntary Arts project, in which an anthology of the growth and social history of Deeside is recorded and compiled with existing works by local artists, writers and historians for public reference. A series of interviews are being published in print, online and on DVD and CD ROM produced at minimum cost but to the highest standards and specifications.

Paricipants are now sought for a compilation of memories and impressions of working men and women on Deeside in the 20th century. Former steelworkers, quarrymen, transport workers, building trades workers, civil engineering workers. miners, agricultural workers, warehouse workers, labourers, shop and factory workers, and former apprentices, plus any other kindred trades people and labourers are all sought with a view to recording memories and anacdotes, pictures and poetry. The industrial and manufacturing workforce of Deeside is the heartbeat of the north Wales economy. The modern conurbation of Deeside is a largely economic migrant population, that is the peole who settled here from other parts of the United Kingdom and beyond were attracted by the prospect of work, so this is a community which barely existed little over a hundred years ago, in particular before the arrival of John Summers' foundry and rolling mills from Stalybridge in the late 19th century. On the other hand, mining, fishing, shipbuilding, farming and quarrying have been a part of life in this area for hundreds of years.