On 30th October 1799, The Llandovery Bank was established in Llandovery in the premises known as the King’s Head on Stone Street, where it was locally known as the ‘Black Ox Bank’ (‘Banc yr Eidon’ ) because the banknotes were embellished with an engraving on the left hand side of a Welsh black ox.

Historically, the Welsh hill farmers derived their main income from the breeding of black cattle, before taking them into Eastern England to be fattened up before sale in London markets.  The long journey home meant that the travellers were vulnerable to attacks from highwaymen and armed gangs, so there became a need to establish a way of transferring the proceeds from the sale to a bank near the home farm.

David Jones, a successful local drover who had also married into a rich family, established the Black Ox Bank in Llandovery, as it was a traditional meeting point of the Carmarthenshire drovers, because of its rich meadow land, ideal for resting the cattle. 

David Jones's grandsons continued the Llandovery Bank, and also opened branches at Lampeter and Llandeilo, under the title ‘David Jones & Co.’  This company was sold to Lloyds Bank Ltd in 1909, thus ending the last surviving private bank in West Wales.  

Born on this day 1937 in Deri, near Bargoed

Brian Price - former Wales and Lions rugby international.  A teacher by profession he later became a journalist and sports presenter for radio and television and in 2006 he became President of the Former Players Association.

Price is perhaps best remembered for the punch that felled Noel Murphy of Ireland, which has down in rugby folk law as, the most famous punch in Five Nations history. Price later explained that he struck because Murphy's fingers were in his eyes and in that situation you don't muck about.   

Born on this day 1882 in Penderyn near Hirwaun

Elizabeth Andrews - suffragette and campaigner for women’s rights, who is also credited as being instrumental in the introduction of pithead baths for miners. 

Andrews was brought up in a Welsh-speaking, mining family of eleven children and was required to leave school at the age of 13 to help her mother.  However, when she was 17, she learnt needlework and moved to Llanwrtyd Wells in 1905 to work in a needlework shop. 

Three years later, she was appointed supervisor in a large sewing workshop  in the Rhondda, where she met her husband, Thomas T. Andrews, who was a founding member of the Rhondda branch of the Independent Labour Party.  She soon developed an interest in politics herself, establishing local branches of the Co-operative Women’s Guild and becoming a member of the suffragettes.

She gained national recognition in 1919, when along with two miners’ wives, she gave evidence to the Sankey Commission, regarding the hardship of the lives of women in mining communities.  She emphasized how important it was for the miners to have pithead baths, as otherwise, women had to carry out the heavy and dangerous work of continually boiling water for baths and for cleaning clothes.  Subsequently, her evidence was instrumental in the introduction of pithead baths. 

Andrews continued to be actively involved in local Labour Party politics, being particularly interested in improving health and education services.  She was responsible for the first Nursery School in the Rhondda being opened and elected a member of Glamorgan executive health committee in 1948, by Aneurin Bevan.  She received an OBE in 1949 for her service to the public and published a book relating to her life story in 1956, named "A Woman’s Work is Never Done".   

The film "The Lion in Winter" was released on 30th October 1968.  It starred Peter O'Toole and Anthony Hopkins in his film debut and was filmed on location in Wales despite being set in 12th century France.  It tells the story of the battles between King Henry II's three sons to inherit the throne.