COLEG Ceredigion students packed their trunks and staged a play on Aberystwyth’s promenade about the day more than 100 years ago when real elephants came to town.

The initial inspiration for the project came from stories and photos of Salt and Sauce, the two elephants from Bostock and Wombell’s menagerie that were taken by their keeper to bathe in the sea at Aberystwyth in 1911.

This led to several related stories about elephants being taken up Constitution hill and the disaster that occurred when one of the elephants panicked and collided with the ascending rail car on which travelled a princess and a baker’s boy, with the ensuing hushing up of events so that the opening of the National Library by King George V could go ahead.

A model elephant named Jumbi was loaned by Performing Arts. University Trinity Saint David.

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