50 YEARS ago

Extracts from the Barry & District News of February 16, 1967:

Residents of Nant Talwg Way, who have been waiting for some years for the making up of their road, will now have to wait until the Borough Engineer has reported upon the number of streets in the borough required to be made up, and an approved programme of future works.

A few years ago, members of Barry Borough Council were visualising large factories and offices springing up on the Ty Verlons Estate, Cardiff Road.

Now it looks as though their hopes were perhaps a little optimistic and the unkept-looking fields which form the site are to be used for a completely different purpose - the grazing of horses.

A most successful coffee morning in aid of the British Cancer Campaign for Research was held in the Memorial Hall annexe on Wednesday week. The brilliantly sunny morning had no doubt tempted 300 to attend this happy function.

The Post Office is issuing new regional stamps, values 9d. and 1s. 6d., for Wales and Monmouthshire, Scotland and Northern Ireland on March 1. The stamps will be of the same designs and colours as the 6d. and 1s. 3d. values issued in 1958.

More than 3,000 people attended the Barry Art Centre's production of The Arcadians which was staged at the Memorial Hall throughout last week.

Although all outstanding bills have not yet been received, it is believed that the Arts Centre has sustained no financial loss as a result of the staging of the musical for six days.

Thrills galore and plenty of excellent football were the ingredients which went into the eight first-round games in the competition for the Sir William Butlin Cup.

Although caught on the wrong foot for the first 20 minutes, Barry fought back in this match at the Reservoir Field on Saturday and eventually won by two tries and a conversion to one dropped goal.