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

Memories from the Barry & District News of 50 and 25 years ago

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of May 26, 1955:

* A railway engine driver who spends every spare minute in public work, is going to be busier than ever next year. He is Ald H W Durman who, at the annual meeting of the Barry Town Council on Monday, was installed Mayor of the borough.

* A cup for the snooker championship of the RAFA Club has been presented to Arthur G Yeo of Castleland Street, an honorary member of the club.

* A big surprise at the annual meeting of the Barry Town Council came in the election of aldermen, for Labour members voted solidly for the election of Ald R M Howell, the Holton Road chemist, an Independent member. He was one of three new alderman appointed.

* Parishioners of Merthyr Dyfan with St Paul's will learn with regret that their rector, the Rev Canon Williams Lewis Harris, is leaving on his appointment by the Bench of Bishops to the Province of Wales to the benefice of Pendoylan.

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of May 29, 1980:

* Barry boy Iestyn Harris has won £100 as one of the 50 runners-up in the European tour essay competition, organised annually by Barclays Bank.

* A Concorde will land at Cardiff-Wales airport on Sunday, August 24, when Cwmbran Travel bring 100 passengers from London and pick up another 100 passengers to go to Lisbon.

* Barry's 1980 May Queen Katharine Ham, a pupil of Holton Road Junior School, was crowned by Susan Dedel from the Philippines.

* A quarter of the people on the Vale's council house waiting lists are senior citizens.