I was born in Barry I was 28 when I moved away and oww boy I miss this place Barry will always be my home Bournemouth is just where I live

Loved every minute working in butlins 76 till82 worked in the staff canteen and played football for barry island great memories we played at jenner Park one year in the final

So much has been promised for Barry but it never arrives

I remember the Knap in the 70s with its hotel, Glan y mor, little parade of shops, the Bridge cafe, lake with boats for hire, lido, two beaches and long promenade. The place was in decline even then but almost deserted now even in mid summer. At least it's easy to park though.

Barry Island was my Disney land as a child..and still is..😍 Henry Danter has made the fairground amazing again..and put the beat back into the heart of it all♥️🥰👌

Thank you. This brought tears to my eyes. My wonderful Dad was a hardworking Docker.

My Granddad lived there,He moved there from (Cardiff) Llandaff North. Barry Island was the first seaside place ever I went to.x

On my list of places to visit. I live in the US of A. From NY, but I now live in SC. Most enjoyable video. Thanks for posting. I enjoyed Mr Butler immensely.

My beloved darling Richard Champ was born in Barry in 1941. His father worked in the docks. If you know any of the Champ family, please message me.

No. Historically wrong. Barry. Nothing to do with St Baruc. The whole of South Wales was heavily Normanized . I came across a village in the south-west of France named Barry. It's a French-derived name. Barry is an extraordinary town and had its heyday in the early part of the 20th C when my grandmother was a girl. The town was booming, and a lot of money was being made. It declined when oil replaced coal, and has been declining ever since. Pathetic local councils have hastened that decline by failing to take advantage of its natural assets (great beaches etc.!). They deliberately destroyed one of the best outdoor swimming pools in the whole of the UK. The once handsome main streets - Broad Street and Holton Road - are now bargain-basement horrors. Almost everything about it is 'nasty'. To be fair, they have 'tried' with the old docks and Barry Island, but they are yet to succeed. My great-grandparents and grandparents and parents would be horrified by the way in which the town they loved has declined. We MADE Barry! What happened to the foremost Grammar Schools in Wales? Gone. Barry produced one to our greatest 20th C composers: Grace Williams; one of our best tenors: Robert Tear. Amusing that 'Gavin & Stacey' should have revived interest. But that, in itself, is a kind of shabby claim to fame. There is one hell of a lot of nice people living in Barry, but, sadly, they are not committed to the town and know little of its distinguished history. I write as Barrian 'born & bred'.

Top video, thanks for sharing, lived here all my life but there was so much that I never knew.

I live on Coldbrook Road opposite one of the oldest churches in Barry - an elderly fellow who walks his dog the same time as me in the morning told me this church is around 1200 years old! I thought it was a few hundred but it is apparently much older. Most of my family live around Barry too. It has some great places and history that most of us don't even see despite it being right in front of us every day! I really enjoyed watching this documentary

Barry was a nice little town back in the day, wasn't overpopulated plenty of independent shops, decent public transport,a hospital, 3 or 4 cinemas,high rate of employment it really was very nice! . Sad shadow of it's former self now though!, Delapidated , Run down, dirty semi ghost town nowadays, benefits, drugs, crime and squalor.... shame.😣

we took the kids there 30+years ago we all had a great time

it's a lovely part of South 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 wales

My father was a docker, worked with the lads in the perway yard, I was born here

This is extremely well done. My entire family's history is bound up with this port. My great-grandparents (immigrants from Somerset - like most Barry-people of that generation) opened up a 'Wine & Spirits' shop in Thompson Street. Thrived, more or less. My grandfather opened up a fruiterers and subsequently an electrical shop in Broad Street (D.B. Thomas). That's where you went to buy your 78 rpm records and tennis rackets. But there was always a sleazy side to Barry. It was nothing for a sailor from God-knows-where to throw a brick through the shop window! And said street was crammed with prostitutes etc. This was an international port, for Gods' sake! But all this gave 'Barry people' an international outlook; they were never provincial. Barry's last 'revival' was during WW2, when my father, for example, got busy patching up the damaged naval ships. My courting parents used to walk to the top of that Barry Dock hill and watch Cardiff burning, thanks to the Luftwaffe. They were young. The war seemed fun to them, especially when the sexy US GIs arrived en masse. High times! Not for a single moment did they imagine Great Britain could lose that war. Unimaginable. Almost on the last day of the war a friend of my Dad's was killed by some errant bomb being chucked out on the entrance to Porthkerry woods. A seriously unlucky man.

my dad was stormy normy who lived on the island for over 20 yrs

oh my god the two todlers running at the end the boy on the left is me ahhhhhhhhhh

Cheers for the upload Kasper

My home town :D

My best friend always says. You can the girl out of Barry but you can't Barry out of the girl. And who am I to disagree with her 😒🤣🤣🤣

I live in beryl road (the street where dominoes is and I front of Gladstone)

Bazra is a beautiful place if you dont go there..

Thanks for the hiraeth...! ;)

My home too

RIP Eddie

This video brought back good memories and sad ones. I always felt that the fairground should've been built under a dome. This is to encourage people come visit in the winter time as well.

All this history and we haven't got a museum disgusting

I live here

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Thinking of buying a house in Cadoxton? Should that place be avoided??

Fab tow

O Shea`s best chippy

I have read it's the birthplace of Chaka Khan famous singer

The birthplace of the failed Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

I'm only here because of being human

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FLATTEN THE PLACE! ITS DEAD.

Bazra is a beautiful place if you dont go there..