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

9:00am Thursday 14th May 2009

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EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of May 14, 1959: *Popular all-rounder Steve Bolt of Borough Rovers was hailed as "Sportsman of the Year" and received the F Bushen Memorial Trophy from the Mayoress (Mrs R M Howell) at the eighth annual presentation dance organised by the Barry and District Football League at the Memorial Hall on Friday.

*The Barry Co-operative Society has lost its fight to use land at the rear of St Paul's Avenue as a coal storage depot. An inspector who conducted an inquiry into an appeal by the Society against the refusal of planning permission recommended that the appeal be allowed.

*A Barry farmer was burned about the legs when lightning struck an electric pylon. The farmer, Michael Hardy, of Port Road, had got up from bed to close his bedroom window. Almost at once there was a flash from a pylon nearby, but it was not until Mr Hardy went downstairs to put out a fire which had broken out in a fuse box that he realised he had been burnt about the legs.

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of May 10, 1983: *A big police operation at Barry Island on Bank Holiday Monday prevented violence between 400 'mods' and skinheads who had gathered at the resort.

*The vandalism and theft taking place in empty council houses is "horrifying," the Vale's housing chief, Elsie Grattidge, has revealed.

*Housebound pensioner Frank Whittle has found the long "lost" Barry family who befriended him during the war thanks to the "News." In less than a week he has been put in touch with the Goodall family who lived in Victoria Road when RAF veteran Frank was stationed in the town in the early Forties.

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