Editing Abertillery (section)

==Town centre==
[[File:BW Pontlottyn.JPG|thumbnail|left|Former "[[David Morgan (department store)|Pontlottyn]]" department store]]
Abertillery's traditional-style town centre mainly developed in the late 19th century and as such has some interesting [[Victorian architecture]]. Spread over 4 main streets the town in its heyday had two department stores and a covered Victorian arcade linking two of the main shopping areas. These were all included in a Blaenau Gwent Borough Council remodelling and modernisation project using European Union funding in a £13&nbsp;million programme spread over a 5-year period ending in 2015.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/15502.asp |title=Remodelling and modernisation project |access-date=21 June 2017 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529212053/http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/15502.asp |archive-date=29 May 2014 }}</ref>

The project included a new multi-storey car park, a revamp of public areas and the town's Metropole Theatre.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.the-met.co.uk/aboutthemet|title=Welcome to The Metropole – 01495 355945|website=www.the-met.co.uk|access-date=21 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171214074301/http://www.the-met.co.uk/aboutthemet|archive-date=14 December 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> This building provides production, exhibition, conference and meeting facilities as well as housing Abertillery museum. In March 2014 [[Prince Edward, Duke of Edinburgh|Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex]], officiated at the launch of Jubilee Square, a public facility in the town centre next to St Michael's Church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/15502.asp |title=Jubilee Square |access-date=21 June 2017 |url-status = dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529212053/http://www.blaenau-gwent.gov.uk/15502.asp |archive-date=29 May 2014 }}</ref>