Welsh Life on Film 1890–1960

The presentation will cover many aspects of life in Wales between the 1890s and the 1960s. The traditional industries such as coal mining and slate quarrying will be shown from the 1930s together with rare footage of day-to-day rural life including Y Stra – the annual sheep round up in the Preseli Hills. There will be clips from an amateur home movie of the last family to live on Skomer Island, a holiday at a North Wales holiday camp in the 1950s and a stunning ride on a steam train through Llangollen in 1898. There will be clips too of the 1930s depression in the South Wales valleys, the post-war recovery in the 1950s and the joys of outward bound walking in the 1960s.