A mum has turned a neglected air raid shelter at the bottom of her garden into an incredible playhouse for her daughter.
Clare Boland, 48, moved into her Briton Ferry home nine years ago and has been looking for a new use for the World War Two bomb shelter in her garden ever since.
"When I looked around the house I said to the estate agent 'is that an Anderson shelter? That's brilliant,' but they didn't know what I was talking about," she said.
"I had a few people in to have a look at it since moving in and they all said to knock it down and have a bit more garden but I said 'no'. I knew this wasn't the end of the building's story," she said.
Clare's mother suggested turning the corrugated iron hut into a potting shed, but she wanted to protect the building after buying the home from the daughter of the original owners.
The house was built in the 1930s and the same family had lived in it since then.
"The next door neighbour even remembered playing with the daughter of the family in the air raid shelter years ago. They put a swing in there after the war, you could still see the brackets in the roof for it," Clare added.
Clare started work at a local pub on Friday nights to meet more people in the area and got talking to local landscape gardener Steve Thomas who had a different vision for the project.
Steve and his father turned the structure into an amazing children's playhouse for Clare's six-year-old daughter, Thea. Most of the original shell remains under the current wooden frame.
"Thea absolutely loves it. She keeps asking when 'the girls' can come over, we haven't had the weather to use it because it was built over the winter but Thea can't wait to sleep in there," Clare said.
The playhouse includes a mock fireplace, electric lighting and heating, and a bed for Thea to use for her sleepovers.
