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 June 9, 1955:

*The services of Mr D W Price to the Barry Branch of the British Legion, as the organiser of the Poppy Day collection in Barry, was recognised at a Barry Branch dinner.

*Floods held up traffic, flooded houses and shop basements and in general gave the inhabitants of the town an uncomfortable time when a torrential rain storm burst over South Wales on Monday.

* Propaganda films in connection with the recovery of waste paper are to be shown in the five local cinemas in the week commencing Monday, June 20.

*In bright sunshine, the mayor (Ald H W Durman), members of the council and public representatives, together with uniform organisations in the town, attended the Civic Service at St Mary's Church, Barry Dock.

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of June 12, 1980:

*A mobile exhibition about the emerging Barry District Plan is being mounted by the Vale of Glamorgan Borough Council, assisted by the South Glamorgan County Council.

*Among the officers in the recent Passing Out Parade at Britannia Royal Naval College, Dartmouth - at which Her Majesty the Queen in her capacity as Lord High Admiral took the salute - was Midshipman James George Wiley, age 19. His parents live at Marine Drive, Barry.

*Castleland's new community centre at the lower end of Belvedere Crescent, Barry, will soon be ready for use.

*The new secretary of the Cardiff Golf Club is well-known Barry golfer Marcus Watt, a former manager of Barry Docks.