50 YEARS ago

Extracts from the Barry & District News of April 29, 1966:

Its own choral and instrumental societies and an arts section specialising in handicrafts and pottery - these could become features of the Barry Arts Centre, the annual general meeting of which was held at the Colcot Welfare Hall, Winston Road, on Monday.

Barry is to be the host for the Olympic Games tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon! The venue will be the King Square and hundreds of students from the Glamorgan a College of Education, Barry, are expected to turn out on this historic occasion which will feature, amongst other demonstrations, the noble arts of pram-racing and pea-pushing.

Corporation workmen will carry out repair work to the kitchen at the Dinam Hall, Belvedere Crescent, while a local youth organisation will voluntarily carry out additional work in the dining room, the Health Committee decided at its meeting on Tuesday week.

It would be nice to say that Barry Cricket Club had made a start to the season, even a watery one, but up to time of going to press, not even a practice ball had been bowled.

Barry Town maintained their position in the middle of the Southern League table by notching three points out of their three games at the weekend, but had the mortification of going down at home on Friday to bottom-of-the-table Deal Town who had only two previous victories to their credit this season.

The Barry Sports Boxing Club is to hold a schoolboy tournament at the Sports Centre on Tuesday when local schoolboys, aged between 11 and 15 will box schoolboys from other parts of Wales.

There is always something happening in the Scouting world, but events sometimes crowd each other so thick and fast that it becomes impossible to record them all at the length they deserve, It is scarcely surprising that the movement should honour its patron saint on St George's Day (April 23) and all over the country, Scouts held church parades on Sunday to Mark the occasion.

As the minutes of the football season tick slowly away, Colcot Stars and Cadoxton Albion, those two hardy annuals for Barry and District League honours, are grappling strongly between each other to take the Division One championship.