FROM the Archive this week features a photograph of Bron Awelon in the Garden Suburb, Barry.
Around the time this photograph was taken in 1930, the most famous resident of Bron Awelon was eight-year-old, Miss Gladys M. Richards who was crowned Temperance Queen by Miss Esther Morgan the headmistress of the Girls County School on April 1, 1930.
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Gladys came top of a Temperance examination organised by the Barry Temperance and Social Welfare Council.
The crowning ceremony held at Trafalgar Hall, Lombard Street, Barry Dock was quite formal and the Queen was accompanied by maids of honour who were next in order on the examination list, a page boy and a guard of honour.
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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