1930 in Wales - Events

Events

• 24 December - in London, Harry Grindell Matthews demonstrates his device to project pictures to the clouds.
• The South Wales Daily Post is launched in Swansea.
• The Crumlin branch of the Monmouthshire & Brecon Canal is closed.
• The Three Valleys Festival is launched.
• The first youth hostel of the Youth Hostels Association, the first in the UK, is opened at Pennant Hall in the Conwy valley near Llanrwst.
• A. H. Dodd succeeds Sir John Edward Lloyd as Professor of History at University of Wales, Bangor.
• Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones becomes Foreign Affairs Secretary to David Lloyd George.
• John Edward Jones becomes Secretary of Plaid Cymru.
• Thomas Lewis becomes first chairman of the Medical Research Society.