FROM Pontypool Museum’s digital archives are two images which take a look back at the borough's rugby pedigree as the Six Nations championships returns from a mini-break.
Since 1868, a rugby team calling Pontypool its home has existed in one form or another, with its most famous side - Pontypool RFC - playing its first official game in 1901.
After winning the Monmouthshire League in the mid-1900s, the club rose to prominence as one of the leading Welsh sides.
One of the images shows the touring Pooler side from 1933, including a number of players who helped the side to win back-to-back Welsh club championships in the 1931/1932 and 1932/1933 seasons.
The other image shows the former Prince of Wales - who would later become King Edward VIII - meeting a team of rugby players while on a tour of south Wales.
These images were donated by the Pontypool Museum as part of its digital archive, which aims to preserve historic documents, images and records from the area.
To find out more about the digital archive, contact the museum at pontypoolmuseum@hotmail.co.uk or call 01495 752036.
The Free Press thanks Pontypool Museum for allowing the paper to use these images.
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