Nefyn - pel-droedwyr a phobl ar y stryd

Robin Jones, Nefyn’s pharmacist, had a camera and used it to capture his community on film. Here is footage of a football match and the smiling faces of people in the High Street.

Robin J Jones [officially Robert J Jones], the Nefyn pharmacist, films a local football match (on a field beneath Garn Boduan), and captures men, women and children in the High Street in medium close-up. Those shown smile or laugh, showing their profiles as if instructed to do so by Robin. Some suck lollipops – an incentive, perhaps, to encourage them to face the camera?

Robin’s film-making equipment was inherited by his nephew, John Glyn Jones, a Brynsiencyn GP, who carried on where his uncle left off, recording his family and local events. Dr Jones’ father, Captain Jones, opened a general store in Nefyn after he retired from the sea and he may be the man seen standing before a sign advertising the ‘Radiac Cure’.