Allcock/Hatton wedding at Whitchurch (Salop). Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr. Geoff Charles, 1950.

Eds. note: Whitchurch is in England, on the border, but the Geoff Charles was a (Welsh) photographer for Y Cymro, so I think this counts as old and Welsh. 

Matson Photo Service, Welsh tablet of Lord’s Prayer on Olivet, ca. 1940-46. Source: Library of Congress.

William Evans [Tygwyn nr. St Davids]. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr. Photographer: M A & S Root, 363 Broadway, New York .

Contemporaneous note on reverse of photograph reads “William Evans (Tygwyn nr. St Davids) Born July 26th 1828 died May 15 1857 aged 29 years. This photograph was taken in New York about the year 1856”.

Gobowen Old Folks New Year Tea. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr. Geoff Charles, 1955.

Image shows a pass the parcel game. This negative has been damaged by vinegar syndrome, however prints taken before the decay can be viewed in the library’s reading rooms.

Gobowen is in England, but this image is simply adorable and is by the Welsh photographer Geoff Charles, so it deserves inclusion.

Father Christmas comes to Shrewsbury Ear, Nose and Throat Hospital. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

Geoff Charles, 1950.

(Not in Wales, but taken by a great Welsh photojournalist.)

Whitchurch [War Memorial] Hall Chrysanthemum Show. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

Geoff Charles, 1949.

Gorsedd of Bards at the Liverpool Eisteddfod. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

John Thomas, 1884.

“They went to show Wales to Londoners”, the great St David’s Day Pageant in London. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr. 

Geoff Charles, 1953.

Nodyn/Note: Images of the St David’s Day Pageant of Wales in the Albert Hall in London, organised by the London Welsh Association showing harpists and women dressed in traditional costume with Beefeaters at the Tower of London

Welsh battalions being conveyed to the front by National Library of Scotland on Flickr:

Welsh soldiers in railway trucks on the way to the Front, Menin, Belgium, 1917. A massive group of soldiers are sitting on top of three railway trucks with their arms and legs sprawled out. They are all in uniform and tin helmets and are still carrying pieces of their equipment. Towards the back of the carriage the soldiers are grouped into a pyramid with some standing up. Despite this the soldiers are not formally posed. In the background is a crescent of leafy tree branches. There is one soldier standing beside the railway track looking at the other soldiers, perhaps he is charge of the draft rather than part of it. John Warwick Brooke is believed to have taken this impromptu photograph.

“Children on a decorated wagon during a Sunday school picnic of Caersalem Welsh Church.” Wild Rose, Wisconsin, 1903. Source: Wisconsin Historical Society.

“John Williams leading a congregation at Peniel Church in song at Gymanfa Ganu, a Welsh songfest.” Pickett, Wisconsin, 1946. Source: Wisconsin Historical Society.

A Welshman who hitchhiked his way round the world by LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

By Geoff Charles, 1958. Photoarchivist’s note: “Islwyn Roberts of Llanbedr, Merionethshire, who had hitchhiked his way around the world, holding a placard written in French.”

Geoff Charles, Longden Bay Go-cart Racers, 1953. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

Eds. note: Longden is technically in England (not far from the Welsh border), but since this is the work of Welsh photojournalist Geoff Charles, I thought I’d include it.

Corporal John Griffiths Jones 1843-1864 by LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr. Ambrotype, ca. 1862.

Fascinating. The National Library of Wales houses a collection of letters (in Welsh) from this man, who was born in Wales but apparently moved with his family to Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. He  fought for the Union army.

Geoff Charles, Baby owl at Oswestry Racecourse, 1957, by LlGC ~ NLW on Flickr.

Eds note: Oswestry is actually in England, right near the Welsh border. (This counts as Welsh because it came from the camera of Geoff Charles.)