I have received over 1,000 images for my internet based community project "Children of Craig-y-nos", photos taken mainly by children using Brownie box cameras as they recorded their experiences of life inside a TB sanatorium some 50 years ago.
This is one such image, of a young girl, Ann Williams, also known as "Ann on Blocks" because her bed was raised on 12 inch blocks, who had tamed a wild bird which she fed daily from her balcony bed.
BBC request 500 words on project update to tie in with the news item that we have been given a £5,000 Welsh Heritage Lottery grant.
Ann Shaw is an artist/writer based in Scotland working in new media. As a journalist she campaigned and wrote about many social and medical issues. She is a feminist and founder member of Falkirk Womens Aid, active in the trades union movement and former member of National Union of Journalists Equality Working Party, and founder member of Forth Valley Open Studios.
