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 7th January 2010

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ZBN460V09-MEMSBAR EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of January 7, 1960: *A new crisis has arisen in the affairs of Barry Town AFC with the news on Tuesday night that Mr Harry Haslam, manager of the club since July 1956, had been sacked.

*The cats of Barry Dock have given up their carefree nights on the tiles! Now they are treading warily, peering cautiously, sniffing suspiciously – and avoiding inviting strangers. In short, they are going in fear and trembling for each of their nine lives, because of a mystery attacker who will use any means, however cruel, to destroy them.

*There was a power failure in the early hours of New Year’s Day when the Brynhill to Dinas Powis sub-station 11,000-volt line was affected. Houses in the Colcot and Pontypridd Road areas were in total darkness and many New Year parties had to carry on in candle light. EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of January 3, 1985: *A Barry poet, 37-year-old Tony Curtis of Colcot Road, has won the £2,000 first prize in the 1984 National Poetry Competition, Britain’s most prestigious poetry contest. *The bitter internal wrangle between the ruling Labour group and the Tory side on Barry Town Council took another turn at a heated meeting of the authority before Chirstmas when the Conservative leader, Cllr Nick Martin, condemned the "totally wrong and misleading" actions of the Mayor, Cllr Dennis Lewis, and called on him to resign.

*A £750,000 runway extension, which will permit direct trans-atlantic flights from Cardiff-Wales Airport for the first time, has been approved by the Government.

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