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 Wednesday 23rd December 2009

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EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of December 23, 1959: *Old boys of Barry Grammar School and former members of the staff paid a nostalgic visit to the old school at Barry Road on Tuesday week. In the school they gathered to sing. from the familiar national songbook. the songs they sang as pupils.

*The Barry Town Council will not be taking over control of its own health and welfare functions because the population of Barry is not 60,000 and no special circumstances were outlined in the Council's application, said a communique from the Ministry of Health.

*Santa Claus took time off from his workshop on Saturday to pay a flying visit to Barry. Leaving his reindeer behind, he arrived at King Square in the orthodox way - on foot, where he was given a warm welcome by a delighted crowd of children and adults and a deputation led by the Mayor Ald A G Thomas.

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of December 20, 1984: *Local cabbies gave 120 under-privileged children a Christmas to remember when they treated them to a fun-packed party at the Barry Memorial Hall on Sunday.

*The 21-year-old director of a Barry firm has been tipped for a British businesswoman of the year award. Debbie Matthews of Millbrook Close, Dinas Powys, has already won thousands of pounds worth of orders since joining the family firm of Riviera Shades at the Palmerston Trading Estate.

*Caterers in Barry are angry over what they claim is the Vale council's "unfair trading practice." They have accused the authority of charging "abnormally low prices" for Christmas meals at the town's leisure centre - prices, they say, that seriously undercut their own.

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