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Treorchy Eisteddfod chair, 1928. Wales in 1928 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. It's possible that due to the Depression, the Welsh Society of Blackstone, Queensland, Australia 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 won the 1928 chair. The young poet, Gwenallt, had composed the best ode in the competition, but the adjudicators were less than impressed with its content. Some aspects of the poem dealt with sexual passion but the adjudicator, John Morris Jones, called it 'a pile of filth'.