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

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

50 years ago

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of December 17 1953:

Mrs Frank Beach, a parishioner, performed the opening ceremony of St Baruch's Church bazaar in the Church Hall, Barry Island, on Saturday.

At the invitation of the chaplain, Squadron-Leader Gordon Bennett, Barry Male Voice Choir, under their conductor, Mr A L Tusler, will be taking part in a Service of Nine Lessons and Carols to be held in the camp cinema at the RAF Station St Athan on Sunday evening.

At a dinner of civic dignitaries in South Wales at the Banqueting Hall, Cardiff Castle, on Monday, Mr Vernon Stokes, deputy chairman of Butlin's Ltd, and chairman of Portsmouth Football Club, told guests that his wife came from Swansea.

Complaints of the terrible state of the pavements in York Place, Windsor Road and Park Road were voiced at a meeting of the Town Council on Monday.

Elain Williams, aged 10, of Home Farm, Dinas Powis, has passed Grade II with distinction for pianoforte. She is a pupil of Doris Russell Evans, 81, Westward Rise, Barry

25 years ago

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of December 21 1978:

The National Welsh Omnibus Services Ltd were last week given permission to increase bus fares from February 1 next year.

When Mr Gordon Donne collected the prize-winning tickets for the Vale of Glamorgan lottery from the Post Office in Wenvoe, the assistant told him: "I've got a winning ticket in there. Make sure it comes out." The ticket did come out and it won £1,000 for Mrs June Pamela Guest of Wenvoe.

A public meeting to discuss the down-grading of the Barry Coastguard station will be held in the New Year, said the chairman of the Vale council's leisure services committee, Cllr Michael Phillips.

Special conditions prohibiting jazz bands from using the area outside the Barry Memorial Hall during competitions held at the hall have been issued by Barry Town Council, following complaints from local residents.