1960 in Wales

← 1959 1958 1957 1960 in Wales → 1961 1962 1963
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1960 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1960 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Charles
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
  • William Morris (outgoing)
  • Trefin (incoming)

Events

• 1 January – Portmeirion Pottery is established when Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband Euan Cooper-Willis (managers of the gift ship at her father's village of Portmeirion) take over Gray's Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent (England).
• 5 January – Closure of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (opened to passengers in 1807 and by this date operated by double-deck electric trams).^[1] The service is replaced by buses operated by its owner South Wales Transport.
• 12 April - Nine miners are killed in a mining accident at Tower Colliery, Hirwaun.
• 28 June - Forty-five miners are killed in an accident at Six Bells Colliery, Monmouthshire.^[2]
• 6 August – At Llandaff Cathedral a service of thanksgiving attended by Queen Elizabeth II is held to mark the end of eleven years' restoration work following air raid damage in 1941.^[3]
• 5 September – Poet and peace campaigner Waldo Williams is sentenced at Haverfordwest to imprisonment for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).^[4]
• 3 November – Esso opens the first oil refinery at Milford Haven.^[5]

Arts and literature

• 29 September – Ricky Valance is the first male Welsh singer to hit number one in the charts, with his cover version of Tell Laura I Love Her.

Film

• Glynis Johns stars in The Sundowners.
• Rachel Roberts stars in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, becoming the first Welsh actress to win a BAFTA for Best British Actress.
• Keith Baxter appears alongside Orson Welles in Chimes at Midnight.

Broadcasting

Sport

• Boxing – Dick Richardson wins the European Heavyweight title. Brian Curvis wins the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles.
• Summer Olympics – David Broome wins a bronze medal on Sunsalve in the individual show jumping event.
• Tennis – Mike Davies wins the British hard court title. He also becomes the first Welsh man to reach a Wimbledon final where he partners Bobby Wilson in the Men's Doubles.
• BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Brian Curvis

Births

• 30 January – Peter Black AM, politician
• 6 February – Jeremy Bowen, journalist and television presenter
• 15 February – Russell Coughlin, footballer (d. 2016)
• 3 May – Geraint Davies, politician
• 9 May – Jillian Lane, spiritual medium (d. 2013)
• 23 June – Ricky Evans, rugby union player
• 29 June – Helen Mary Jones, politician (in Colchester)
• 13 July – Ian Hislop, satirist
• 18 September – Ian Lucas, politician
• 12 December – Kelvin Smart, flyweight boxer
• 24 December – Carol Vorderman, television personality (in Bedford)
• date unknown
  • Lesley Griffiths, politician
  • Gareth Jones, orchestral and choral conductor
  • Malcolm Pryce, novelist (in Shrewsbury)

Deaths

Aneurin Bevan, died 6 July

• 2 January – Leila Megàne, opera singer, c. 69
• 13 January – Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, 79
• 17 January – E. Llwyd Williams, minister and poet, 53
• 27 January – Joseph Jones, dual-code rugby international, 60
• 2 February – Joseph "Joe" Jones, rugby league player, 60
• 30 March – Edward Evan, politician, 77
• 11 April – William Llewellyn Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 76
• 7 May – Mai Jones, songwriter, 61
• 23 May – John Edwards, politician, 77
• 19 June – Thomas Alwyn Lloyd, architect, 78
• 27 June – Harry Pollitt, politician, 69
• 6 July – Aneurin Bevan, politician, 62
• 9 July – John Dyke, Wales international rugby union player, 76
• 24 August – Dai Edwards, Wales dual-code rugby international, 64
• 25 August – Tommy Jones-Davies, Wales international rugby player, 54
• 27 September – George Morgan Trefgarne, 1st Baron Trefgarne, politician, 66
• 29 October – Horace Williams, footballer, c. 60
• 20 December – Harry Uzzell, Wales international rugby union captain, 77

See also

• 1960 in Northern Ireland

References