FROM the Archive this week features a postcard produced and sold by Mr F. R. Hurford who ran a newsagents/hairdressers on Holton Road.
On January, 12 1899 a terrific storm battered Barry.
You walked up Holton Road at your own peril as chimney pots and slates were blown around landing in the street.
A billboard narrowly missed a young lad going home from Holton Road school.
He was taken home but his injuries luckily were not serious.
A large window in the sweet shop of Mr Beynon opposite Holton Road School was smashed in by the force of the storm.
At the dock a wooden building owned by District Council was tethered by ropes to stop it blowing into the sea.
Wild weather seems the norm now with the Vale council recently declaring a climate change emergency.
The Barry & District News would like to thank Cllr Shirley Hodges for the photograph and information.
If you have an old Barry photograph you would like to see included, with information about what it depicts, email sha@barryanddistrictnews.co.uk
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