Dai Llewellyn Champion Gurner Mountain Ash Wales Gurning c1970s Press Photo
This is a silver gelatin photograph that is unmounted and is 6 x 8 inches (150x202mm).
It shows a close-up portrait of an elderly man pulling a face, with his lower jaw pushed up so that his chin almost meets his nose. He holds the bowl of a pipe at the corner of his mouth and wears a houndstooth flat cap, a collared shirt and a cardigan. He is photographed outdoors, with a brick wall and the corner of a building out of focus behind him. The typed caption on the reverse identifies him as champion gurner Dai Llewellyn of Mountain Ash.
The reverse has a typed caption in purple ink reading: 'Dai is 82 - and still the top "Gurner". This is the face which could well be included in a "Hall of Fame" is, as has been suggested, one is established to honour Welsh sportsmen. For it is the face of champion gurner Dai Llewellyn of Fountain Street, Mountain Ash, now aged 82 but gurning as well as ever. Dai won more than 600 prizes at carnivals for the ancient sport of "Gurning" - distorting one's face in the ugliest possible way, and he still seems to have the knack.' The word 'Gurning' is circled in blue ink. There is a circular stamp reading '© Topix 233-3986-52, copyright by Thomson Regional Newspapers Ltd.', with 'Thomson Organisation Picture Service, London' around the edge, along with an address and a telephone number.
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