AN S4C television programme will reunite two people with the Eisteddfod chair, which was made by their relative.
Gwesty Aduniad (The Reunion Hotel) is a television series commissioned by the BBC and national broadcaster S4C that reunites those who have lost contact or who want to make contact for the first time.
From long lost relatives to life-saving heroes, romantic reunions to emotional homecomings, the hotel has been home to many stories.
But one of the hotel’s most recent meet ups is amongst its most unexpected reunions.
On Gwesty Aduniad’s most recent series, viewers will hear the story of a long-lost Eisteddfod chair.
The 1948 Waunfawr Village Eisteddfod chair was found in Warws Werdd.
The Warws Werdd furniture and clothes recycling project is based on the Cibyn Industrial Estate in Caernarfon and sells a range of second-hand furniture and clothes at low prices.
It is a part of Antur Waunfawr, a social enterprise that provides health and wellbeing, work, and training opportunities for individuals with learning disabilities in Gwynedd.
The chair was renovated by local artist Cefyn Burgess in order to furnish Antur Waunfawr’s retreat bungalow that provides people with learning difficulties and their families respite.
Before commissioning Cefyn to revamp the chair, it was covered in black leather.
But at the beginning of 2022, Antur Waunfawr began looking into the chair and its history.
It was discovered that Emyr Jones of Tŷ'n Ceunant, Waunfawr was the winner of the chair at the Eisteddfod, which was held at Capel Bethel, Waunfawr (which was, coincidently, on the site of the bungalow, the current home of the chair.)
Emyr was the eldest of the children of Harri Jones and his wife, and following a period in the army, went to the Bangor Normal College to train to be a teacher. He then became headmaster at Ysgol Betws-yn-Rhos near Abergele.
The chair was made by a carpenter called Thomas Arthur Thomas, one of the partners of Thomas & Thomas, in the company's workshop in Croesywaun.
Tomorrow (September 13), the chair will appear on the popular series Gwesty Aduniad on S4C, when the daughter and granddaughter of the chair’s poet will see the chair in its current form.
The Gwesty Aduniad episode will be on S4C at 9pm tomorrow.
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