50 years ago

Extracts from the Barry & District

News of October 15, 1964:

Victoria Park, Cadoxton, is one of the most attractive of the town’s parks, as the many young and elderly folk who regularly use it in the summer months will testify. But unless something is done to stamp out the wave of vandalism which seems to haunt the park, it might lose some of its beauty.

Cadoxton now has two St Cadoc’s. One is the centuries old church nestling in the Old Village and the other is an attractive new Roman Catholic secondary school, built at a cost of £130,000, which is situated in Palmerstone.

The people of Barry go to the polls today to vote in the General Election after one of the fiercest political campaigns ever waged. Through television, radio, newspapers and personal canvassing the election issues have been brought to the fireside on a scale never equalled before.

Next Thursday it is hoped that a start will be made on the erection of the 100 factory-built houses which are being erected at the David Street site, Cadoxton.

The new commandant, Air Commodore CNS Pringle, described the RAF Station at St Athan as “one of the happiest station of the Royal Air Force” when he spoke at a luncheon at the Barry Memorial Hall on Saturday, given by the Mayor to commemorate the fifth anniversary of the granting of the Freedom of the Borough station.

The chairman of Porthkerry Parish Council and principal of the Cleg-y-Fro, informed a joint meeting of Penmark and Porthkerry Parish councils on Thursday that the membership of the newly-inaugurated Rhoose Sports Club had already reached 135. He pointed out an urgent need for a building with toilet facilities on the sports ground and said it was embarrassing to people who lived around the neighbourhood.

At the annual general meeting of the Barry Ladies’ Lifeboat Guild it was reported that £450 would be forwarded to the London headquarters of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.