1967 in Wales

1967 in Wales

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1967 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland

Other events of 1967

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1967 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – The Prince Charles
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Secretary of State for Wales – Cledwyn Hughes
• Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth (retired)
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – E. Gwyndaf Evans

Events

• 20 February - The first Royal Mail postbus in Britain runs between Llanidloes and Llangurig.
• 5 May - The Brynglas Tunnels on the M4 motorway by-passing Newport are opened.
• 27 July - The Welsh Language Act allows the use of Welsh in legal proceedings and official documents.
• 7 August - Two men and a boy are drowned in the Dyfi estuary.
• August - The Beatles, along with Mick Jagger, Cilla Black, and Jane Asher, come to Bangor to attend a seminar by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Their visit is cut short by the shock news of manager Brian Epstein's death.
• 18 December - Newtown, Montgomeryshire, is designated as a New Town. The River Severn is re-channelled to prevent the town becoming further damaged by floods.
• The Gittins Report on Primary Education in Wales recommends that "every child should be given sufficient opportunity to be reasonably bilingual by the end of the primary stage".
• Merched y Wawr is founded in the village of Parc near Bala.
• The University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) in Cardiff becomes part of the University of Wales.
• Foot and Mouth Disease breaks out in North Wales and parts of England.
• Rhodri Morgan marries fellow Welsh Labour MP Julie Edwards.
• The former Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent, RAF Caerwent weapons storage facility, is transferred to United States administration.
• The Passport Office comes to Newport and the Land Registry to Swansea, as part of a United Kingdom government effort to move government offices into the regions.
• Clywedog Reservoir completed.

Arts and literature

• The first Welsh pantomime is put on by Theatr Felinfach, based on the life of Twm Siôn Cati.
• Rhys Davies wins an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his story "The Chosen One", originally published in The New Yorker.
• The publisher Y Lolfa is established by Robat Gruffudd in Tal-y-bont, Ceredigion.^[1]

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bala)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Emrys Roberts
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Eluned Phillips
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

New books

• Hydwedd Boyer - I'r Ynysoedd
• Alan Garner - The Owl Service
• Bill Meilen - The Division
• Leslie Norris - The Loud Winter
• Brinley Richards - Cerddi'r Dyffryn
• Kate Roberts - Tegwch y Bore
• Bertrand Russell - War Crimes in Vietnam
• William Nantlais Williams - O Gopa Bryn Nefo

New drama

• Saunders Lewis - Cymru Fydd

Music

• Hogia'r Wyddfa - Tylluanod (album)
• Mary Hopkin - Mae Pob Awr
• Arwel Hughes - Mab y Dyn (cantata)
• Jeffrey Lewis - Epitaphium - Children of the Sun
• William Mathias - Sinfonietta
• Toni ac Aloma - Caffi Gaerwen
• Y Triban - Paid â dodi dadi ar y dôl
• Y Blew - Maes B

Film

• Richard Burton stars in The Taming of the Shrew opposite his wife Elizabeth Taylor.
• Carry On up the Khyber is filmed in North Wales.

Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

• Hob y Deri Dando; Disc a Dawn

English-language television

• The Shepherds of Moel Siabod (documentary)
• The Prisoner, filmed at Portmeirion
• The cast and crew of Doctor Who film the serial The Abominable Snowmen at Nant Ffrancon, doubling for Tibet.

Sport

• Boxing - Howard Winstone is beaten by Mexico's Vincente Saldivar at Ninian Park, Cardiff.
• Cricket - Glamorgan County Cricket Club moves to a new home at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.
• Gymnastics - Bobby Williams of Swansea is British champion.
• Rugby union - Barry John and Gareth Edwards make their international debut.
• Swimming - Paul Radmilovic is the first Briton to be elected to the American Swimming Hall of Fame.
• BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - Howard Winstone

Births

• 7 February – Richie Burnett, darts player
• 16 February – Eluned Morgan, politician
• 18 February – Colin Jackson CBE, athlete
• 21 March – Carwyn Jones, politician
• 10 May – Jon Ronson, journalist and documentary filmmaker
• 22 July – Rhys Ifans, actor and musician
• 7 September – Steve James, cricketer
• 12 November – Grant Nicholas, musician
• 18 November – Zoë Skoulding, poet and musician
• 27 November – Geraint Rees, neurologist
• date unknown (in Bolton) – Paul Pritchard, climber

Deaths

• 15 January – Sir Cyril Fox, archaeologist, 84
• 22 January – Idris Bell, papyrologist and author, 87
• 28 January – Cliff Davies, Wales international rugby player, 47
• 14 February – Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, politician, 70
• 11 March – Ivor Rees, Victoria Cross recipient, 73
• 5 May – Owen Thomas Jones, geologist, 89
• 29 July – Jack Wetter, Wales international rugby union captain, 79
• 30 July – George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player, 77
• 15 September – Rhys Gabe, Wales international rugby union captain, 87
• 8 October – Vernon Watkins, poet, 61
• 9 October – Edward Tegla Davies, clergyman and writer, 87
• 2 November – Robert John Rowlands ("Meuryn"), poet, 87
• 25 November – Tom Parker, Welsh international rugby union captain, 76
• 12 December – Tommy Bamford, footballer, 62

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