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

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

50 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of January 28, 1954:

The Mayoress (Cllr Mrs Olwen Yeoman) was among the audience at Holton Road Baptist Church on Wednesday week to greet and applaud the Orpheus Male Voice Choir from the Rhondda.

Flashing beacons and their cost to the government were discussed at a meeting of the public Works and Planning Committee on Monday, after Cllr R M Howell had asked if it was really necessary to have them flashing during the day.

The reports and recommendations of three sub-committees formed to discuss various aspects of the parking problem in Barry were put before a meeting of the public works and planning committee on Monday night.

William Jeffreys, son of Mr and Mrs E A Jeffreys, formerly of Porth-y-Castell, and now resident at Rosebery, Tasmania, has been awarded "The Rosebery Scholarship".

25 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of February 1 1979:

The new May Queen this year has been chosen from High Street Primary School. She is Michelle Palmer of 10 St Paul's Avenue.

Rev Peter R Roberts, assistant curate in the Parish of Cadoxton-juxta-Barry, will be leaving the area at the beginning of February.

Residents at Evelyn Street and Cora Street, Barry, have complained to Barry's MP, Sir Raymond Gower, about the interference with television reception, particularly ITV, due they say, to the mast and aerial at the top of the tower of the old fire station in Court Road, Barry.

A request from Barry Town Council for a contribution from the Vale Borough Council towards the cost of the proposed £120,000 crematorium at Merthyr Dyfan burial ground was deferred at a meeting of the Vale's finance and policy committee last week.