Together Trust Archive

In January the British Film Institute brought together a collection celebrating the representation of people with disabilities in film via their video streaming service (BFI Player). Revealing films from 1911 to the present day, the Disabled Britain on Film portal showcases the work of disability-led film makers, and documentaries focusing on those living with disabilities and the charities which provide support to them, to highlight an often overlooked part of the lives of many individuals and families across Britain. Residents of the Bethesda Home c. 1890

As we enjoy, what could be, the remaining few days of warm sunshine before autumn approaches, it seemed apt to return to Old Colwyn and the seaside home of Tanllwyfan, which opened 100 years ago. This provided for children, not eligible for admission to the permanent homes, a recuperating agency by the seaside for several weeks. The new home at Old Colwyn

The  Together Trust  has various film reels from its earlier days depicting some of our former services. These have been converted into DVD clips by the  North West Film Archive  to allow the films to still be seen today. It gives a different insight into how the charity advertised itself as well as revealing what the services would have looked like. Title Slide

We’ve had another ‘lost’ item return to the fold... Front Cover - 'The Children - England's Hope'

“We are again in the midst of summer joys and sunshine, and to many of your readers it will mean happy times in the fields and woods, or by the cool seashore. But to hundreds pent up in the great city it will mean weariness and wasting. Dirt and squalor are bad enough in the winter, but sunshine and beauty of summer seem to exaggerate these miseries.” - Manchester Courier and Lancashire General Advertiser (May 1888). In the dreariness of our so-called summer in Manchester this year, the above quote may seem a little mocking, but so read an article in a local newspaper in 1888 calling for funds to send a ‘sick and pale-faced child’ to the Seaside Home at Lytham . Seaside Home, Lytham