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  • This Crown was won by R. Silyn Roberts (1871-1930) at the National Eisteddfod held in Bangor in 1902. His winning poem to Trystan and Isolde was published in 'Trystan ac Esyllt a Chaniadau Eraill' (1904). The Crown was designed by Harold Rathbone of Liverpool. Silyn was a native of Llanllyfni, Caernarfonshire. He worked as a quarryman for a period before enrolling at the University College of North Wales, Bangor. He was a committed socialist and in 1925 he established the North Wales branch of the Workers' Educational Association (the WEA).
Crown won by R. Silyn Roberts at the Bangor National Eisteddfod, 1902
  • This Bardic Crown was awarded to Joseph Harry at the Birkenhead Eisteddfod of 1931. It is a silver crown with the Welsh mark of the Red Dragon on it, and the inscription 'Eisteddfod y Glomen Wen, Birkenhead, Mawrth 13 a 14, 1931'.
Bardic Crown from Birkenhead Eisteddfod, 1931