Extracts from the Barry and District News (From Barry And District News)

Extracts from the Barry and District News

50 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of August 19, 1954:

Mr R H Baker, Assistant Chief Constable of Glamorgan, addressing the Barry Rotary Club on Thursday on the history of the Glamorgan Police Force said the Glamorgan force might have to reduce further the height standard to maintain its strength.

The Barry Lifeboat was asked to stand by on Sunday evening in case it was required to rescue five men who were marooned at Pleasant Harbour, Aberthaw. The men were on a plot of land which became marooned at the high tide.

A dream of a house of their own is coming true for a group of local men who some two years ago formed the Barry Self-Build House Association. After two years of planning negotiation, hopes and heartaches, they are now going ahead in fine style on their site at Treharne Road, Cadoxton.

Award for the best foreign bird exhibited at the recent two day show staged at the Park Hotel, Cardiff, by the Cardiff Budgerigar and Foreign Bird Society, went to E J Provis of Cadoxton.

A presentation of cutlery and a kit of tools was made a the Docks Office yesterday (Wednesday) week to Arthur Alexander Foren, who celebrated 50 years service with the railway on April 28.

25 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of August 23, 1979:

For over 40 years Lorna Sugden-Smith has been a playing member of the Brynhill Golf Club and this was celebrated at a special event at the club on Friday week.

Following complaints from residents of Earls Crescent, Barry Island, who are worried about the lack of signs warning motorists of a no through road, a sign and road markings are to be placed near the junction.

The Local Government Boundary Commission for Wales, who in 1976 advocated the split up of Barry into three or four communities, have now recommended that the town, the largest community with a council in Wales, should retain its present set up.

The Old Village of Cadoxton will be preserved. Miss Majorie Wakeham, 51, of "Golden Grove," Coldbrook Road West, Cadoxton took the unprecedented decision of asking the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council to include her five acre field and paddock, the subject of a recent unsuccessful compulsory purchase order in the Conservation area of Cadoxton.