Memories from the Penarth TImes (From Penarth Times)

Memories from the Penarth TImes

25 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS from the Penarth Times of September 16, 1977:

The vicar of All Saints, the Rev Dilwyn Thomas, and Canon James Keane, Padre to Penarth branch of RAFA, greeted the Air Officer, Wales, before last Saturday's Battle of Britain Thanksgiving Service at All Saints Church.

The bulldozer being used in pitch improvements for Dinas Powis Rugby Club, at The Common, was vandalised last weekend.

Members of Penarth Town Council will vote at their next meeting on whether to run a lottery to raise funds for local amenities.

A Penarth family has saved the lives of three kittens by hand rearing them after their stray mother was killed when they were two-weeks-old. Kathy Duffield, of Lavernock Road, returned from a holiday on July 25 and found the stray cat, who had adopted her family a few months ago, had started her own family.

The Standard bearers made an impressive spectacle during the parade through Penarth last Sunday prior to the annual Battle of Britain Thanksgiving Service held this year at All Saints Church, Penarth, by the East Glamorgan and Gwent Region of the Royal Air Forces Association.

10 YEARS AGO EXTRACTS from the Penarth Times of September 18, 1992:

A plea by Sully Community Council for a grant to improve the bowling green at Sully has been turned down by the Vale leisure services committee.

The extension to the Special Children's Centre, based at Llandough Hospital, was officially opened by Vincent Kane, OBE, Welsh broadcaster on Wednesday.

Town mayor, cllr Nigel Gibbs, presented a cheque for £150 to Dr Gladys Tinker, chairman of Penarth and District Stroke Association.

Dorothy Rees, lady captain of Whitchurch Golf Club, presented a cheque for £846, the proceeds of their charities day, to Pamela Walliker, of Countess Place, Penarth, chairman of the South Glamorgan branch of the National Asthma Campaign.

After recently returning from a week in Berlin with the Royal Air Force, Cadet Warrant Officer Emma Martin, of 1148 (Penarth) Squadron ATC, has now achieved her wings at 634 Gliding School at RAF St Athan.