50 YEARS ago

Extracts from the Barry & District News of May 20, 1966:

A big audience is expected at the Barry Memorial Hall tonight when a pupil of Holton Road Junior School will be crowned May Queen at a children's concert organised by the Barry Committee of the Save the Children Fund.

Over 165 entires had been received to date for the solo and sidecar events at the motor cycle road races which are being staged by the Barry Motor Club at Llandow Circuit tomorrow.

Sixty-one replies have so far been received in response to a four-line advertisement which appeared in last week's issue of the Barry & District News.

The advertisement was for two clerk/receptionists for a doctors' group practice in Barry.

Barry Town directors have been well satisfied with the performance of the team this season and have retained five of the regular players and offered terms to two others.

Minutes of the Seaboards Lands Committee, approved at a meeting of Barry Town Council last week, showed that negotiations are still in progress with a company which has expressed an interest in a site for a hotel at Barry Island. Arrangements are to be made for the committee to meet the controller of the company when he next visits Barry.

In an atmosphere of earnest endeavour, newly-applied paint and inherent efficiency, six members of a newly-formed branch of the Barry Toc H got to work on the dining room of Dinam Hall, Merthyr Street, on Saturday morning.

Barry Centurions 1st XI made their annual visit to Ashbrittle, on the borders of Devon and Somerset on Sunday. The weather was, as always, glorious; the Centurions have been visiting this lovely little ground in the heart of the countryside for six successive years and not once has the weather been less than perfect.

Barry Harriers opened their track season with a visit to Swansea University for an eight-club contest on Wednesday week.

By holding Cadoxton Albion to a 1-1 draw on Monday, Colcot Stars got the solitary point needed to win the Barry and District League championship.