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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Treorchy National Eisteddfod chair, 1928. In that year, Wales was in a period of deep depression. The Prime Minister, Stanley Baldwin visited the Eisteddfod in Treorchy and praised the local people for organizing the event against such adversity. The back of the chair features the Australian coat of arms as it was the Welsh Society of Blackstone, Queensland, who donated this chair to the Eisteddfod as a gift that year. Blackstone, like Treorchy, was a coalmining community. The chair is believed to have been made by Evan Morris Jones who had emigrated from Tal-y-bont, Ceredigion. But despite their efforts, no one was awarded the 1928 chair in the poetry competition.
