"Six scanners were kept busy all day attempting to keep up with the hundreds of photographs and postcards, as well as tickets, posters, articles etc relating to Aberaeron over the past 200 years brought in by the community.

Michael Freeman, Curator of Ceredigion Museum was in charge of the event and together with Ffion and Rhodri Jones scanned with only short breaks from 10.00 am until 5.00 pm with other volunteers, too numerous to mention doing shorter stints.

A huge thank you to the people of Aberaeron and area who so generously donated their photographs, etc, and who are allowing us to use them in the Bicentenary Exhibition.

There are still many photographs left to be scanned and so this is an ongoing project and one which will take months to catalogue correctly. Although it will be impossible to show every photograph during this year's exhibition all of them will be catalogued and hopefully be used in future exhibitions and kept for posterity.

Despite that, if anyone still has photographs of interest we will be delighted to accept them. Merched y Wawr members worked hard all day in the kitchen and kept spirits and energy up by ensuring that everyone was fed and watered, diolch yn fawr.

Finally thank you to the British Legion who supported the Bicentenary Celebrations by allowing the use of their premises without any charge."

Article by Mair Lloyd