FROM this Archive this week features a photograph of a busy Whitmore Bay.
Barry Island made holiday history in 1927 when over the August Bank Holiday 100,000 people visited Barry Island and The Knap.
In readiness of the bank holiday hundreds of people were arriving early and spending the night on the beach at Whitmore Bay, around fires on the sand.
At dawn people started to arrive by coach and train.
More than 3,000 cars were counted and 50,000 arrived by rail.
The crowds were so great scores of people were treated for fainting.
At the end of the day getting off the island was difficult by both car and train.
Several thousand people from the Rhondda sang hymns to pass the time waiting for their train which left at 1am in the morning.
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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