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A 1930s travelogue from North Wales in the UK. The film shows lots of different tourist sites from across North Wales, including Conwy and Caernarfon castles, the Menai suspension bridge, Anglesey, the Bodelwyddan, David Lloyd George's boyhood home and Snowdon. There are also shots of Welsh countryside including beaches, waterfalls, lakes, mountains and flocks of cattle, sheep and horses.

A group of Welsh women in North Wales, Wales sit on a bench talking. They wear traditional rural Welsh costumes including the Welsh Hat. They walk together through a field.

Waves lap against a curving beach on a rugged coastline.

The ruins of a large castle, possibly Conwy Castle, sit in a field surrounded by hills and mountains. A steam train travels past the castle.

A pier extends out over the water in a bay. A couple walk along a winding coastal road and a car passes by. Seagulls sit on the rocks and screech.

The ruins of another castle in a field with horses standing in front of it.

The film shows the spire of the Bodelwyddan or St Margaret church also known as the Marble Church in the Vale of Clwyd in Denbighshire, Wales.

The film shows the Menai suspension bridge that crosses the water between mainland Wales near Bangor and the island of Anglesey.

A group of men sit in a cemetery next to a small church building.

A train platform in the village of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch. Trains pass the people waiting on the platform. One of the steam passenger trains pulls up to the station.

The film then shows the Welsh landscape passing by the train window as the camera films out of the window. The train passes villages, mountains and valleys, lakes, fields and forests. At another train station passengers get out of the train onto the platform.

A montage of footage from the countryside including waterfalls, a stone bridge across a small river, a lake and a large mountain. In the shadow of the mountains a herd of cows walks across a field. There are also a flock of sheep in a field next to a lake. The sheep are washed by two shepherds in a sheep dip and then jump through a hole in the stone wall as a border collie looks on returning to the field.

A car drives along a winding road through a forest. It crosses a stone bridge across a stream as a group of boys watch.

A large lake with a mountain next to it. On the top of the mountain a man walks through the mist. There is footage from the inside of a steam train that heads up Mount Snowdon in Snowdonia. A group of people watch the steam train moving slowly up the tracks of the mountain railway.

A group of men and boys look out over the valleys from the top of the mountain. They point at different things in the landscape and look at them through binoculars. There is more footage of waterfalls, lakes, cattle in the field and of the steam passenger train on the mountain.

A large quarry on the side of a mountain, workers come and go in and out of the mine.

Another stone bridge crosses a rocky mountain stream.

A stone cottage in a garden. A sign shows that it is the boyhood home of David Lloyd George, the former Liberal Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. The home is located in the village of Llanystumdwy, near Criccieth in Cardigan Bay.

The film shows Caernarfon Castle or Caernavon Castle. Details on the turrets and towers are shown as is the castle courtyard. The sun begins to set and shows the castle in silhouette against the sunset. The film ends with the sun setting over the sea.

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