Nuts and Bolts

Nuts and Bolts was a weekly television drama series, set in the fictional South Wales town of Ystrad. Filmed entirely on location in Merthyr Tydfil, the series made large use of exterior locations, with many interiors being recorded in a former Welsh Water depot; which became a hastily improvised television studio. The first series was hailed an instant success, and became renowned for its accurate portrayal of valleys life and became a proving-ground for new Welsh drama talent, such as Eve Myles, Jonathan Owen,Jason May, Lawrence Llewellyn, Nathan Jones, Dean Keohane and Alexandra Dunn As baby Jade was Amy Monger. The series was awarded The Royal Television Society Award for Best Regional Drama in 1999. However, erratic scheduling and a lack of commitment to show the drama nationally, led to the series being cancelled in November 2002; just one month after Nuts and Bolts finished its fourth-series run on HTV. The series was devised and created by Lynnette Jenkins.