The exhibition opened yesterday and we are all still reeling from the media coverage.
Thanks to the amazing press release sent out by Dr Carole Reeves from The Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine we got two television crews, and at least two newspapers though there could well have been more all covering the opening. We made the 6.30pm BBC Wales News – how many photographic exhibitions make the daily television news?- one slight hitch was where could we watch it on television ? We had returned one of our "stars" Valerie Brent to her home in Mumbles – she had agreed to do interviews both in English and Welsh on television – and we found ourselves in a pub in Mumbles competing with the rugby. We persuaded the girl behind the bar to let us watch the coverage on one screen.
The exhibition is arousing tremendous interest in the community because it has opened up a book – a taboo subject that has never been spoken about before – how sick children were removed from the community for years on end and placed in remote isolation in a Welsh castle.
