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

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

50 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of September 23, 1954:

Fishing from the sands at Barry Island at high tide on Tuesday week evening, Keith Hicks, aged 12, of Upper Pyke Street, Barry Dock, who is about 4ft 6in in height caught a conger eel of about 3ft 6in in length, and weighing over 11lb.

On Saturday at Gladstone School, Cardiff, a Brownie Revels was held when it was announced that the 2nd Cadoxton (St Aidan's) Brownie Pack had won the Sylvia Vachell Brownie Picture for the year.

Wilfred Wooller, Glamorgan County cricket team's popular captain and B M Griffiths, the famous World Cup referee from Newport, are expected to take part in a "Sports Forum" from the Memorial Hall over the Welsh Home service at 7.30pm on October 14.

Nearly 250 bottles of pop exploded when a shed behind St Mary's Church Hall, Holton Road, was destroyed by fire on Thursday.

25 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of September 27, 1979:

A BP Chemical spokesman said this week that the company did not think the two recent disputes by men employed on their £33m extension had seriously delayed the project.

The weeds, brambles and bushes around the streets and back lanes of Cadoxton were a disgrace, a meeting of the Cadoxton Residents' Action Group were told on Wednesday week.

The old adage that you cannot legislate for the elements was vividly borne out over the weekend when the thick, cloying mud of Barry's Old Harbour and the vagaries of an inhospitable tide stubbornly baulked every attempt to rescue thousands of pounds worth of excavating machinery.

Eighteen-year-old Heather Garton, of the Butlin's holiday camp in Ayr Scotland, won the Butlin's Staff Princess final held at the Barry camp on Thursday.