[Fly-through video of Y Shed project and how the transformation will look]

MORE help is needed to help shed light on a village's history.

A rundown former railway building, on the walkway at Meliden, Prestatyn, is undergoing a £1.2 million revamp. Work is taking place to transform the grade II listed building into a community hub - called Y Shed - which will boast a café, heritage, bike hire facility, and business start-up units.

Y Shed will open next year. Project leaders, charitable housing association Grŵp Cynefin and Meliden Residents Action Group, are keen to ensure the project reflects Meliden life.

It is hoped that village artefacts and old photos can be displayed within the building and people are being asked to help unearth hidden historical treasures.

Mair Edwards, Grŵp Cynefin’s community initiatives manager, said: "It’s not just old photos we are looking for. Squirrelled away might be clothing, artefacts, books or objects that nod to the village’s history.

"We’d love to see what’s out there and would invite people along to an open morning where we can scan pictures and photograph items with a view to finding them a permanent home in Y Shed once it opens.

"We’re not asking people to hand over their pictures and artefacts to us at this stage but to allow us to capture and record them so we can see what’s out there and then we can follow up any items of particular interest."

People are being asked to bring items or photos along to Meliden Community Centre on Tuesday, October 30 between 10am and 1pm. Photographs can be scanned and stored, and objects pictured and catalogued.

Construction workers on the site have already unearthed Victorian drinking bottles believed to have been used by railway workers and passengers.

Some of the bottles may go on display when Y Shed - the first railway heritage attraction of its kind in Prestatyn - opens.