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1985 in Wales

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1985 in: The United Kingdom

This article is about the particular significance of the year1985 toWales andits people.

Incumbents

For United Kingdom incumbents, see1985 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

Events

3 March – TheUK miners' strike (1984–85) formally ends. Among the mines not reopening isBedwas Navigation Colliery.
16 May – Dean Hancock and Russell Shankland are convicted of murder atCardiff Crown Court and jailed for life. The previous November, at the height of the miners' strike, they had caused the death of a taxi driver by dropping a concrete block onto his car as it passed under a bridge.
29 June – TheA55 Colwyn Bay bypass is completed.
4 July – At theBrecon and Radnor by-election (caused by the death of sitting Conservative MPTom Ellis Hooson) local farmerRichard Livsey takes the seat for the Liberals.
25 July –Clwydian Range AONB is designated.^[4]^[5]
20 December –Swansea City A.F.C., struggling in the English Third Division just three years after being in the First, are issued with a winding-up order in theHigh Court and are at risk of closure and being forced out of theFootball League.^[6]
exact date unknown
- Terry Matthews sells his stake inMitel toBritish Telecom.^[7]
- "Cefn" is founded to campaign for the civil rights of Welsh speakers.
- TheCentre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies is founded at theUniversity of Wales,Aberystwyth.
- Seventeen women are prosecuted onconspiracy charges after the occupation of a nuclear bunker nearCarmarthen.^[8]

Arts and literature

Robat Powell becomes the first Welsh learner to win the Chair at the National Eisteddfod (see below).^[9]

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held inRhyl)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair -Robat Powell
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown -John Roderick Rees
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal -Margaret Dafydd

New books

English language

Alice Thomas Ellis –Unexplained Laughter
LadyOlwen Carey Evans –Lloyd George Was My Father^[10]
David Hughes –The Pork Butcher
Christopher Meredith –This
Robert Minhinnick –The Dinosaur Park
John Powell Ward –The Clearing
Ivor Wilks –South Wales and the Rising of 1839

Welsh language

Geraint Bowen –Cerddi
Bryan Martin Davies –Lleoedd
Glanmor Williams
- Harri Tudur a Chymru
- Grym Tafodau Tân
Eluned Phillips –Cerddi Glyn-y-Mêl

Music

Downtown Julie Brown makes her debut onClub MTV.
"Dwylo Dros y Môr", performed by various artists, is the Welsh charity song released in coordination withBand Aid.

Albums

Aled Jones –Aled Jones With The BBC Welsh Chorus
Living Legends –Better Dead Than Wed
Eirlys Parri –Yfory^[11]

Film

Jonathan Pryce stars inBrazil.
Richard Marquand directsJagged Edge.

Welsh-language films

None

Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

Helfa Drysor^[12]
Sam Tân (Fireman Sam)^[13]

English-language television

10 September – ITV broadcasts theWales vs Scotland World Cup qualifying match live fromNinian Park inCardiff.^[14] Scotland managerJock Stein collapses and dies in the stadium's first aid room.^[15]
The Dragon Has Two Tongues, co-presented byGwyn Alf Williams andWynford Vaughan-Thomas^[16]

Sport

BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year –Steve Jones^[17]
Horse racing –Hywel Davies wins theGrand National on "Last Suspect".

Births

2 January –Mark Evans, musical theatre actor, singer, dancer and choreographer
9 January –Elen Evans, rugby player^[18]
3 March –David Davies, swimmer^[19]
8 April –Gareth Rees, cricketer^[20]
13 May
- Iwan Rheon, screen actor
- Danny Thomas, footballer
31 May –Laura Daniels, lawn bowler^[21]
16 June –Craig Morgan, footballer
17 July –Tom Cullen, actor
30 August –Richard Duffy, international footballer and manager^[22]
11 September –Daniel Parslow, footballer
19 September –Alun Wyn Jones, international rugby union captain^[23]
24 September –Kimberley Nixon, actress
10 October –Marina Lambrini Diamandis, singer
14 December –Alex Pennie, musician
15 November –Simon Spender, footballer
25 December
- Leon Pisani, pop singer
- Perdita Weeks, actress
28 December –Nicola Davies, footballer^[24]
date unknown –Claire Jones, harpist^[25]

Deaths

19 January –Tom Richards, athlete, 74
26 January –David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech, 66 (car accident)^[26]
9 March –John Tudor Jones, journalist, poet, critic, broadcaster, and translator, 81
29 March –Rae Jenkins, violinist and conductor^[27]
4 April –Kate Roberts, author, 94^[28]
21 April –Owen Temple-Morris, barrister and politician, 88^[29]
22 April – SirThomas Parry, academic, 80^[30]
8 May –Tom Hooson, politician, 52 (cancer)^[31]
9 June –Clifford Evans, actor, 73
July -Roger Ashton (footballer), footballer, 63
1 September –Saunders Lewis, writer, 91^[32]
14 September –Niel Morgan, cricketer and diplomat, 81
17 September –Laura Ashley, designer, 60 (brain haemorrhage after fall)^[33]
18 September –Iorwerth Evans, rugby player, 79
28 October
- Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek, politician, 81^[34]
- Leslie Harris, cricketer, 70
4 November –Hilda Vaughan, novelist, 93
17 December –Gwyn Richards, dual-code rugby player, 79
27 December –Len Richards, footballer, 74
date unknown –Dewi-Prys Thomas, architect^[35]

See also

References

^Stephen Bates (19 March 2018)."Lord Crickhowell obituary".The Guardian. Retrieved19 March 2020.
^Doe, Norman (5 March 2020).A New History of the Church in Wales: Governance and Ministry, Theology and Society. Cambridge University Press. p. 119.ISBN 978-1-108-60320-1.
^"WJ Gruffydd: Writer who helped keep alive the Welsh tradition".The Independent. 20 July 2011. Retrieved11 May 2022.
^"Other Notices | The Gazette".www.thegazette.co.uk. Retrieved2023-10-30.
^"Management Plan 2014 - 2019"(PDF).clwydianrangeanddeevalleyaonb.org.uk. p. 3. Retrieved30 October 2023.
^Steven Pye (12 May 2018)."When Swansea City were relegated through all four divisions in four years".The Guardian. Retrieved22 November 2018.
^"The secret billionaire".The Independent. 26 July 2000.Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved22 November 2018.
^Nick Parry (14 December 2005)."Town's forgotten nuclear bunker".BBC News. Retrieved22 November 2018.
^"Chaired Bard Robat Powell: How can one learn a language?".Parallel.cymru. 24 July 2018. Retrieved22 November 2018.
^Lady Olwen Carey Evans; Mary Garner (1 January 1985).Lloyd George was My Father: The Autobiography of Lady Olwen Carey Evans. Gomer Press.ISBN 978-0-86383-112-6.
^"Y gantores Eirlys Parri wedi marw yn 74 oed".Newyddion S4C (in Welsh). 30 June 2024. Retrieved4 July 2024.
^"Helfa Drysor". UKGameshows. Retrieved24 May 2019.
^Peter Shuttleworth (17 November 2017)."Fireman Sam at 30: Prince George's favourite cartoon celebrates".BBC. Retrieved8 October 2019.
^"World Cup 1986".Internationals on ITV 1984-present. ITV Football 1968–83. 13 October 2012. Archived fromthe original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved18 October 2012.
^McCallum, Andrew; Reynolds, Jim (11 September 1985)."Manager Stein dies at match".The Herald. Herald & Times Group. Retrieved21 April 2012.
^Martin Shipton (24 December 2017)."Blogger threatened with £143k bill if he uploads iconic Welsh history TV series to YouTube".WalesOnline. Retrieved13 March 2021.
^"BBC Wales Sport Personality winners".BBC Sport. 10 December 2012. Retrieved2 August 2021.
^"Elen Evans".Eurosport. Retrieved25 February 2019.
^"David Davies".British Swimming (archived). Archived fromthe original on 26 September 2008. Retrieved16 December 2019.
^"Gareth Rees profile".ESPN. Retrieved24 July 2024.
^"Lawn Bowls | Athlete Profile: Laura DANIELS - Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games".results.gc2018.com. Retrieved9 March 2021.
^Richard Duffy at National-Football-Teams.com
^"Alun Wyn Jones, rugby player".BBC Wales. Retrieved16 December 2019.
^Nicola Davies –UEFA competition record (archive)
^"Claire Jones".Green Spring Music. Retrieved24 July 2024.
^"Lord Harlech killed in crash".Shropshire Star. 26 January 1985. p. 1.
^Johns-Davies, Jayne Marilyn (2006).Rae Jenkins FRAM, MBE: the life story of Welsh conductor and musician 1903 to 1985. p. 28.
^Morgan, Derec Llwyd (1991),Kate Roberts. Writers of Wales series. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.ISBN 0-7083-1115-6. An introduction to her work in English.
^Who was Who: A Companion to Who's Who, 1981-1990, A. & C. Black, p. 747
^Derec Llwyd Morgan."Parry, Sir Thomas (1904-1985), scholar, Librarian of the National Library of Wales, University Principal, poet".Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved17 March 2019.
^John Graham Jones."Hooson, Tom Ellis (1933-1985), Conservative politician".Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved17 March 2019.
^T. Robin Chapman."Lewis, John Saunders (1893-1985), politician, critic and dramatist".Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved17 March 2019.
^Slesin, Suzanne (18 September 1985)."Laura Ashley, British Designer, Is Dead at 60".The New York Times. Retrieved8 December 2018.
^R. McHenry; Daphne Daume; J.E. Davis (April 1986).Britannica book of the year: 1986. Encyclopaedia Britannica. p. 127.ISBN 978-0-85229-437-6.
^Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (1976).An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan: pt. 1. pt. a. The early castles from the Norman Conquest to 1217. H.M.S.D. p. x.ISBN 978-0-11-300035-7.

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