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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Clive Hall, Llandaf - Sports' Day
Races of all sorts have been arranged for the children at Roald Dahl’s old school in Cardiff – and parents get a chance to race too!
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Overview
The day has dawned dry and bright for this independent school’s sports’ day and whilst the juniors (boys and girls) and seniors (girls only) compete in sack races and running races, a slow bicycle race, the high jump and a tug-of-war, ice-creams are dispensed from a van, a horse keeps cool under a shady tree and a toddler refreshes himself from a big glass bottle. There are races for parents too but R G Iles, whose two daughters attended the school, is busy filming.
Reginald George Iles, who worked in the Bonus Department of Imperial Tobacco in Cardiff, was a founder member of the South Wales and Monmouthshire Agricultural and Horse Shows Association for which organisation he shot footage of a number of shows in the 1940s/50s. Clive Hall, an independent school in Clive Road, Llandaf, Cardiff, was attended at one time by the young Roald Dahl. It had extensive grounds but the sports days were sometimes held in a field adjoining Western Avenue, Llandaf.
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