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Aberystwyth Street Scenes - 1

Wonderful views of Aberystwyth are contrasted with a couple of heart stopping moments concerning several vehicles.

Home movie 1970 3 mins Silent

From the collection of:

Logo for National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales

Overview

Off-cuts, in black and white and colour, of the Promenade at North Beach, the university campus (there is a particular focus on the bell tower which, together with the Great Hall and concourse, was awarded the RIBA Gold Medal for Architecture in Wales in 1972), and of traffic which is shown crossing Trefechan Bridge, moving along various streets - e.g. Bridge Street – and negotiating the Llanbadarn Road junction at the bottom of Penglais Hill.