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 3rd December 2009

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EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of December 3, 1959: *By July, 1960, it is hoped that work will be completed on a building approximately 30,000 square feet in the size, to be constructed by Sidroy Mills, the parent company of J Feltz and Co Ltd, to house a distribution centre, offices and showrooms, which it is estimated will give employment to an additional 70-80 local people.

*A locust found amongst a lorry load of chemicals delivered to distillers, has been kept in a container on the premises. Police throughout the country have been told to be on the alert for reports of other locusts and are trying to trace the source of this one.

*At a meeting in the Memorial Hall on Friday, the Barry Camera Club was informed that one its members namely Miss W Williams, had one of her photographs accepted and hung at the Autumn Nature Exhibition of the Royal Photographic Society in London.

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of November 29, 1984: *All hell broke loose at Barry Town Council last week. The tiny council chamber at number 61 Tynewydd Road rang to the cries of "Shame!" and "Disgrace" when the Town Mayor effectively gagged the Tory opposition as they attempted vainly to censure the council leader. The Tories were not even allowed to raise a point of order – because the Mayor, followed by half-a-dozen Labour councillors, trooped out of the chamber in a move that was clearly intended to halt any decision.

*Author Leslie Thomas, who atended the launching of Barry: The Centenary Book at the Memorial Hall during centenary week, reckons to have many relatives in the town – although he has never met any of them. Mr Thomas’s mother and father were both in Barry and although he was born in Newport, his parents had, between them, 23 brothers and sisters.

*Two Barry housewives recently collected more than £200 in Cardiff city centre for the Ethiopian famine appeal, a sum which has been handed in to the Barry branch of the British Red Crooss Society.

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