Butlins Camp, Textile Mill, Football Match and Garden

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Butlins Camp, Textile Mill, Football Match and Garden

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Archif Sgrin a Sain Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive

Established in 2001, the National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive holds an unrivalled collection of films, TV and radio broadcasts, video tapes and sound recordings relating to Wales and the Welsh, from 1898 to the present day. The collection spans multiples formats and genres, both professional and amateur.

Butlins Camp, Textile Mill, Football Match and Garden

Archif Sgrin a Sain Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales Screen and Sound Archive
Pwllheli
1947-01-01
Silent
5m

The newly-opened Butlin's holiday camp at Pwllheli attracts the interest of Harold Cox and his cine camera.

What links footage of early days at Butlin's Pwllheli (a holiday camp opened to much local opposition in 1947 with accommodation for 5,000) with shots of weaving at a textile mill (possibly Leri Tweed Mills, Ceredigion), a football match and seaside shots (probably the Dyffryn Ardudwy area) and shots of a garden (likely to be at Four Oaks, Warwickshire)? The answer is Harold Cox, a lover of Wales and owner of a music business in Birmingham.

Harold Cox, the film-maker, and his brother holiday-ed regularly with family and friends in Dyffryn Ardudwy, both having had neighbouring bungalows built there for their eventual retirements. They would use Dyffryn as a base from which to tour north and mid-Wales. Harold lived at ‘The Rowans' in Jordan Road, Four Oaks, Warwickshire.

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