Merthyr Mawr Warren [12] - a photo on Flickriver

One overcast March day back in 1974, when I worked at the Jane Hodge Holiday Home, we took the youngsters on a visit to the sand dunes at Merthyr Mawr, which is a vast area of natural dune and scrubland adjoining the Glamorgan heritage Coast. The kids had a whale of a time running up and down the dunes and riding on the sand sledges, for days afterwards we were still finding sand in their pockets, shoes and wellington boots.

The last in this set and Brian charges down the dune on a sand sledge whilst David waits his turn. OK, I've cheated here and added a sky, but it helps to balance the photo a little without that huge expanse of blankness.

From 1968 to 1974 I worked at the Jane Hodge Holiday Home at Trerhyngyll in the Vale of Glamorgan. The home was dedicated to providing short term "holidays" or respite care for disabled children of all abilities. Some of the youngsters were severely disabled, others not so, indeed sometimes it was hard to tell they had any form of disability at all. During my time at the home I took over 400 colour slide photographs and have about three times that number of black and white negatives as well as some 8mm ciné film. On another day we returned to the dunes where the youngsters played in the little stream which I have already shown you in another set.

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Taken on: March 1, 1974

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