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Well done. You remember cat good.
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Sorry, I meant the book
or, maybe...
You sure it wasnt you with the attitude problem?
Even 20 years ago with only a handful of buildings and when it charged loads for entry it was wonderful....
Me,Mrs27 and bump have just been over to St.F's.Walked thru museum from car park, left via the pedestrian entrance and had a lovely pint of pear cider in the Plymouth Arms.It was the incentive I needed to walk in this heat!!You sure it wasnt you with the attitude problem?
Even 20 years ago with only a handful of buildings and when it charged loads for entry it was wonderful....
Oh, had a smashing afternoon at St Fagans today with a friend from Edinburgh who was well impressed. Hotter than Satan's G String today. Whew! They've changed the name of the place and one of the staff said they're getting feedback that it's confusing for people. Whatever it's called, I love it - oh and had a quick zip round Barry Island on Friday night as well. Love the snaps on the thread.
(Newbie here - recommended by a good friend btw.)
Are you named after the Cardiff Royal Infirmary on Newport road?
Me,Mrs27 and bump have just been over to St.F's.Walked thru museum from car park, left via the pedestrian entrance and had a lovely pint of pear cider in the Plymouth Arms.It was the incentive I needed to walk in this heat!!
*waves at CRI*
MMmmmmmmm pear cider *drool*
Now here's a fantastic site: History of Barry Island Holiday Camp
(There's a fair few images missing but there's still some good stuff in there)
That's pretty unlikely - the lighthouse is small and made from made from cast iron so building an entire railway just for that would be real overkill!Probably used to transport materials for the construction of the lighthouse. Why it was left in place though, I don't know...
Barry and Bristol Channel Steamship Company
Barry Dock Offices - June 2007The railway which had played a major part in the development of the dock, did a great deal to make Barry Island a popular resort.
From the 1890s, the company persuaded P and A Campbell to run steamers from a pier built alongside the dock across the Bristol Channel, but in 1905 they started to build their own fleet of four ships. But as a railway company, parliamentary powers were required to operate steamships and the powers granted generally included provisions which limited operations to routes genuinely associated with the mother company's principal business (i.e. railway connections to non-accessible locations). The powers were also granted to take account of the legitimate interests of existing operators.
The company were limited to calls on the southern bank of the Channel between Weston super Mare and Ilfracombe, with additional summer excursion destinations allowed so long as the cruises started and finished at Barry. To circumvent these restrictions, the company resorted to the ploy of registering their vessels in the names of its directors and set up an operating company, the Barry and Bristol Channel Steamship Company. P and A Campbell resorted to successful legal action which ensured that by July 1907, the Barry Railway Company was required to abide by the terms of the original legislation.
That must surely be an incorrect caption - Barry Pier was to the east and looked like this:Captions on two of the pics in the lower part of this page suggest the line was used to meet pleasure steamers and that it remained operational till 1975:
http://www.railbrit.co.uk/location.php?loc=Barry Railway
Looking at the aerial view it makes you wonder where the crane was unloading stuff to as the breakwater rocks stretch out quite a way and it all looks rather shallow and sandy.And the lighthouse pier railway can be seen connecting via a tunnel to the docks to the north - in fact, the southern portal is just about visible on gmaps: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?clien....3937,-3.264129&spn=0.000264,0.00098&t=k&z=20