Extracts from the Penarth Times from 25 years ago (From Penarth Times)

Extracts from the Penarth Times from 25 years ago

25 YEARS AGO

EXTRACTS from the Penarth Times of December 30, 1977:

Chairman of the Penarth Conservative Club, George Brown, presented a cheque for £213 to Penarth Kidney Research Committee chairman Paul Ward.

A Christmas party was held at the Pilot Hotel for senior citizen customers and neighbours. Frank Entiknap, Bernard Savage, Johnny Gimber and Jeff Mules served the 'Pilot Punch' made for the occasion by Mr Savage.

The petition signed by 193 people calling for the demolition of the former toilets building in Wordsworth Avenue Recreation Ground has still be to considered by Vale councillors.

Protests appear to be mounting over the proposed new Penarth bus routes and anxious town councillors are to put their objections to the South Glamorgan County Council.

Sister Doris Griffiths and staff at St Mary's Day Hospital, Llandough, served patients with their special Christmas dinner.

Penarth WRVS Darby and Joan Club's Christmas party was a particularly happy one, as leader Doris Pawley Evans was able to be present.

Geoff Addicott, manager of Leo's Penarth Road store, presented a grocery voucher to customers Mr and Mrs Philip Grant, of St David's Crescent, Penarth. They were just two of a score of lucky shoppers who received gifts to mark the festive season.