Caravan Holiday 1937 - and how we made the film 'The Bandits of Mawddwy'
From the collection of
From the collection of
From the traffic and built-up streets of Wolverhampton to the green and pleasant pastures of Llanymawddwy come John W Meredith and family to stay in a caravan at Penygeulan Farm, home of Richard Ellis Jones. The sun shines on the washing-up outdoors and the pony riding – and on a few off-cuts from a film about the area’s legendary bandits that Meredith, the Rev H E Hughes (seen here with sackcloth and pony) and R E Jones made with the local community in 1936.