A UNIQUE opportunity to own pieces of Barry Island Pleasure Park history has arisen as a Barry businessman has announced anything and everything must go.

Pleasure Park co-owner Ian Rogers is asking the public to make him offers he can’t refuse on all kinds of memorabilia he owns from the resort’s iconic fairground site.

Artifacts, in various conditions and states of repair, include children’s rides and gaming machines including grabbers, donkey derbies and penny falls machines.

Items often tell a story of the times when they were acquired and trends in cultural history with goods possibly of interest to a buyer on the look-out for a quirky or unique item with a Barry Island story to tell.

The 52-year-old businessman needs to sell the items, and stock from his Bargain Master shop known formerly as Hyper Value, before bowing out from the 4.5 acre site.

His decision comes amid Barry Island Property Company making an application to build apartments and retail on the Dolphin Bar site and the deal with showman Henry Danter to re-install fairground rides, should planners give the scheme the green light.

The Dolphin will continue trading until the end of this year with Mr Rogers honouring, and welcoming, bookings, until the end of this year.

The fairground, in its main form, first came into existence in 1923 and the 34-strong Hyper Value empire that Ian inherited from his dad following his death, in 2000, saw Barry as the origin of the first store when it opened in 1982 on the Paul Builders’ Merchants site, opposite the former Theatre Royal cinema site.

Ian said everyone was working hard to try and get the new Barry Island Pleasure Park deal done and Henry Danter now wanted to get on site and do what needed to be done and he had four weeks to ensure everything and anything on the Pleasure Park, that he owns, found a new home.

Ian said: “I’ve got to clear what little stuff I’ve got left to make it clear. He’s got rides coming in and if he can’t put them in Barry he’s got to divert them somewhere else.”

Ian is also holding a massive closing down sale at the Island retail store attached to the park as his lease agreement for Bargain Master, known commonly as Hyper Value draws to an end, this July.

Ian said: “I’ve got to liquidate as much as I can. It’s not something I want to do. Everything and anything must go.”

If you would like to visit the Park and take a closer look at possible items you may like to buy, contact Mr Rogers via email on ianrogers62@gmail.com