National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales preserves and celebrates the sound and moving image heritage of Wales, making it accessible to a wide range of users for enjoyment and learning. Its film collection reflects every aspect of the nation’s social, cultural and working life across the 20th century, giving a fascinating insight into Welsh filmmaking, both amateur and professional.
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Pêl-droed a Chriced
Anglesey life: football in colour, showing the successful Newborough team and a match at Brynsiencyn, and cricket in monochrome at a ‘Plas Newydd’ garden party.
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Glory days on Anglesey: colour footage of a photo-call for the victorious Newborough football team and their haul of trophies (1960-61), and a match at Brynsiencyn, and monochrome footage of a cricket match and garden party (1950s) at ‘Plas Newydd’, home of the Marquis of Anglesey. An annual event, perhaps, the party shows the many and varied faces of the men, women and children attending.
Dr John Glyn Jones, a talented viola player, was a GP for Brynsiencyn and area. He inherited film-making equipment from his Uncle Robin [Robert J Jones], the Nefyn pharmacist who had captured his local community on film in the 1930s/40s. Dr Jones continued filming community and family life into the 1970s. The garden party and cricket match at ‘Plas Newydd’ may be associated with the HMS Conway, a naval training ship which was moored near the mansion during WWII and which is visible from the garden in some shots. She met her end in 1953, hitting rocks in the Menai Strait when sailing to Liverpool for a re-fit.
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