BBC Cymru Wales will be transporting two modern day families back to 1890 for a brand new television series - Snowdonia Farmhouse and the search was on at Hilston Park to find people to take part in this unique interactive project.

The series, to be filmed and broadcast in 2010, will take two Welsh families and immerse them in 19th century life. Living in neighbouring farm cottages in Snowdonia, the families will face a daily battle for survival. The women will labour the land, tend the livestock and run the family home while the men will work in the nearby slate mines. Their trials and tribulations will mirror the challenges faced by their forefathers over 100 years ago.

Indus Television, the production company behind the successful and ground breaking Coal House series, was auditioning families from all over Wales, including one from Abergavenny to take part in a series of tests to see how the families would cope with the hardships of the time and how they would interact with each other. Filming will begin in May with a broadcast expected in the Autumn