Barry Memories (From Barry And District News)

Barry Memories

50 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of August 14, 1952:

Shipments of coal from Barry Docks in the weekend, August 10, totalled 33,538 tons, compared with 19,276 tons for the corresponding period of 1951.

Captain J L Peterson, of Rockside, Dinas Powis, who recently retired from the position of dock master at Barry Docks, was entertained to lunch and presented with an inscribed travelling clock by his former colleagues.

Three more children, pupils of Mrs O'Brien, 59, Graving Dock Street, have entered the final of the Welsh Championship "Go-As-You-Please" contest to be held at Pontypridd, on Saturday. They are Olwin Sansome, Sheila Phipps and Iris Lewis.

The National Sunday School Union's "Sunshine Corner" on Barry Island sands is being conducted each afternoon this week and next by Rev Hubert Little.

There was a happy diversion during the tea interval in the game between Barry Athletic and Cardiff City Cricket XI, when the Mayor Ald K C Steer made the presentation of an electric clock to Ernie Carless the club's batsman-wicket keeper.

Effective steps are now being taken to combat the potato shortage, and as a result the rationing introduced by several Barry retailers last weekend is not likely to be repeated.

25 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of August 11, 1977:

A cheque for £150, the proceeds of Barry Carnival Raft Race, organised by Barry Round Table, was handed over to the chairman of the Vale of Glamorgan Silver Jubilee Committee and Vale Mayor (Cllr John Cotter) on Monday.

On July 28, Mr David Vaughan Howell, a former student at Barry Comprehensive School, was called to the Bar at Grays Inn.

Barry's MP Sir Raymond Gower, has been told by the Secretary of State for Wales, Mr John Morris, that he sees no grounds for seeking to persuade Davy Powergas Ltd, to change their plans.

Argentinian evangelist Luis Palau who is scheduled to begin a 10-day "Jubilee '77" Crusade in Cardiff Castle on August 17, will preach in the Memorial Hall, Barry, tomorrow.

A threat to scrap the long-awaited and much-heralded pedestrianisation scheme for a part of Barry's major shopping area in Holton Road has angered local business interests.