In the Autumn of 2023, Altered Images held a six-week project at Hawthorn Community Centre, where a group of local residents came together on a weekly basis to share their stories and memories of the villages and to research its past. The group pored over old newspaper articles, maps and census returns, and discussed their own personal recollections of the ways the village had changed and developed. This is their story of Hawthorn and Lower Rhydyfelin.