I lost my mother, Sheila Morris, to COVID on fifth of January, 2021. I couldn't go with my mother in the ambulance. We couldn't go down to the hospital to see her. It was a very cruel time because that's all you want to do, obviously, was be with your loved ones in the hospital, even to hold a hand, but I just couldn't be down there at all.
Communities in the valleys are often described as tight knit. But at a time when many of these places had some of the highest infection rates in the whole of the UK, it is a term that can't be understated.
The heart was built. We started in the March after my mother passed away. It was just going to be a little memorial at first, and it all grew and grew. People got to know about her, and at the end, then we all placed flags with the loved one's names. It's just a nice place to come, just to sit and just remember.
Five years since the pandemic, Sky's Dan Whitehead visits the Welsh Valleys, where communities were badly affected by ...