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Christmas Day Sports at Rhyl, 1920
Happy festive hockey - just what the doctor ordered for seasonal over-indulgence?
Non-Fiction 1920 2 mins Silent
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Overview
The weather seems good, with no-one shivering in their kit – though the women do wear hats. There is no Christmassy setting of snow or any other seasonal prop in evidence at this hockey match for ‘mixed ladies and gentlemen’, where banter and banjo-mimicking seems to engage both sides’ participants as much as bully-off and dab-hand dribbling. Meeting, not beating, seems to be the point here.
This match took place on the site of the former Claremont Hydro hotel, along Brighton Road, Rhyl – a hydropathic hotel which had an indoor baths for relaxation and health treatment. The Claremont Hydro later became a men’s convalescent/retirement home called Y Gorlan, and the building was demolished in the early 1980s.
Genres
Non-Fiction
Released
1920
Country
Wales
Location
Rhyl
Language
English
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