A community project to preserve the history of four Mid-Wales pioneers is set to host an open event in Newtown.

Members of the public are being asked to come along to the session, held in Bear Lanes Shopping Centre on Saturday, June 8, to share their memories of fashion and textile pioneers Laura Ashley and family.

Laura and Bernard Ashley relocated their family home and kitchen tabletop business in the 1960s to Machynlleth Montgomeryshire and then moved their fabric printing press to Ty Bryth in Carno, before gpoing on to become an internationally recognised brand name.

"This is a taster session to record, preserve and share the social history of Laura and Bernard Ashley Family working together with our partners the Peoples Collection Wales; Addysg Oedolion Cymru/Adult Learning Wales; Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust; and the Royal Commission for the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales," said spokesperson Ann Evans.

"With their neighbouring farming community co-workers they created a new fabric of society in a very rural part of Mid Wales, where this phenomenal family and community became a global success.

"Please come along and share your memories and photographs of the 60s, 70s and 80s of the Laura Ashley Family."

The Heritage Hub 4 Mid Wales is a community social enterprise project establishing an online Cultural Heritage Hub to digitally record, preserve the lifelong legacies and social history of four significant Powys

and Mid Wales Pioneers:

Robert Owen, who was a Welsh Philanthropic social reformer and a creative genius of International importance; Pryce Jones, Pioneer of Mail Order home shopping across the British Empire; David Davies, Coal and Railway Pioneer and his family - Lord Davies of Llandinam Montgomeryshire, and his sisters, Gwendoline and Margaret Davies; and Laura and Bernard Ashley and family, Fashion & Textile Pioneers.

The Heritage Hub 4 Mid Wales has received funding through the Welsh Government Rural Communities - Rural Development Programme 2014-2020, which is funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the Welsh Government, to create the Powys Pioneers Digital Heritage feasibility study.

The event takes place in Bear Lanes Shopping Centre, Newtown between 10a, and 4pm on Saturday, June 8.