50 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of January 21, 1954:

J Feltz and Co Cadoxton held their first staff dance at Bindles last week when roughly 350 employees and friends, including members of the Executive Staff, were present. The guest of honour was Mr J Feltz, London, Managing Director of the firm.

A donation of £2 2s from Bert Witchard & Sons brings the total of the Barry Bomb Injured Children's Fund to £1,166 14s 9d.

A new wide screen, one of the latest developments in the industry, is to be introduced at the Theatre Royal, Barry, as from Monday next, and will give patrons improved viewing.

A humorous talk, entitled "Through the Booking Office Window" was given to members of the Old Age Pensioners No 1 Branch at the Methodist Schoolroom on Holton Road, on Tuesday week, by Mr A Morgan.

A forty years' link with the industrial life of the town was severed last week when Mr David T Pook of Gladstone Road, retired from the Barry undertaking of the Wales Gas Board.

25 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Barry & District News of January 25, 1979:

The Barry Town Council has fixed a sum of 5p in the pound for their rate for the 1978/79 financial year.

Barry's MP, Sir Raymond Gower, has taken up with the secretary for Employment the problems of Dow Corning, who say a prolonged lorry driver's strike and the fact that it is official will be injurious to business and exports.

The estimated cost of a rescue centre at Barry Island for the St John Ambulance Brigade is £145,000, members of the Vale council's Leisure Services Committee heard at a meeting last week.

Against a background of depressing forecasts and a dreaded economic recession that militated against business interests generally, Barry Docks had an impressive 10 percent.

The first prize in the Barry Arts Centre's annual draw was a mini-holiday for two in Brussels and the winners were 73-year-old Mr Cockayne of St Fagan's and his 70-year-old wife.