Extracts from the Barry and District News from 50 and 25 years ago (From Barry And District News)

Extracts from the Barry and District News from 50 and 25 years ago

50 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of May 21, 1953:

The Coronation festivities get off to a good start on Tuesday, May 26, with the beginning of Barry's Coronation Youth Week.

Cadet-sergt Phillip Gatt has been chosen to represent the Barry Army Cadets in London for the Coronation.

Tremendous interest has been aroused by the series of articles in the Barry & District News on the Vale of Glamorgan and its villages, written by Mr Stan Awberry MP.

For the second year in succession the North-West Firefly Team Championships at West Kirby on Saturday and Sunday were attended by strong squally winds which caused over 20 capsizes on the first day alone.

Two Barry Boys' Grammar School Cricketers are included in the Glamorgan Secondary Schools Cricket Association team to meet Breconshire SSCA at Neath on Saturday. They are G Hughes and J Watson.

25 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of May 25, 1978:

A week after the first anniversary of the legalising of council run lotteries in Britain the people of the Vale area will get their first taste of a betting craze that is taking on the proportions of a national sport.

Barry busmen returned to work on Friday after the four day dispute, which brought almost all the services in Barry area to a halt.

There is growing opposition in the Cadoxton area to proposed changes in the catchment area of Cadoxton Infants' School on the opening of the new school at Gibbonsdown later this year.

The Barry Male Voice Choir is one of 11 choirs to reach the semi- final stage on the Welsh choirs knock-out competition being sponsored by Welsh brewers.

English setter "Iroquois Snow-storm of Sundeala", owned by Mrs Barbara Davies of South Road, Sully, won his third challenge certificate at Bath Championship Show on Friday week.