RESIDENTS in three Gwynedd Council care homes have benefited from a special scheme that uses old photographs and sound archives in order to help them recall their upbringing.

Two trainees from Gwynedd Council’s Mangers of Tomorrow scheme have been working on the ‘Community Memory Chest’ project which involves residents from Plas Gwilym, Penygroes; Bryn Blodau, Llan Ffestiniog and Plas y Don in Pwllheli.

As part of the scheme, Arawn Glyn and Sara Marged Jones from the council have been putting together the community memory chests, which contain an album of old photographs and archived audio clips.

Their intention is to help the residents of the care homes in Ffestiniog, Penygroes and Pwllheli through the use of images, audio and spoken word to recall memories from the region where they were raised.