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        Maesmawr School: Victory Tea and Harvest Festival

        Maesmawr School is small but it provides a good Victory spread and the fruits of the earth abound at its Harvest Festival.

        School programme and Educational film 1945 11 mins Silent

        From the collection of:

        Logo for National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales

        Overview

        Times of thanksgiving: for the end of WWII and for the good earth's bounty. A Victory Tea is held on the road outside the school, with sports to follow, and the Harvest Festival service is held inside the school (c.1960), led by the Rev Todd. Marrows and flowers abound. At Maesmawr Hall, home of the Trants, apple trees in the walled garden are heavy with fruit (c.1958) and ponies are utilised to reach the best. The punt is taken across the lake to collect punnets of blackberries.

        Filmed by Ion Trant from Dovea Farm, Tipperary, Ireland, who studied agriculture in Canada and then joined the staff of the Welsh Plant Breeding Station at Aberystwyth, where he met his future wife, Janet Owen of Maesmawr Hall, Welshpool. They farmed at Maesmawr Hall and the adjoining farm, Cefn Du, and at Esgairdraenllwyn, Llaithddu, Llandrindod. Conscious of an emerging gulf between town and country, Ion welcomed school visits to his farms and also devised/filmed the Country Close-Up series for children (BBC TV 1956-62), often featuring his own 3. He was subsequently offered work as a freelance cameraman on the BBC's farming programme and others.