50 YEARS ago

Extracts from the Penarth Times of September 30, 1966:

More than 80 people attended the Harvest Festival service, held at the Dinas Powys Athletic Club last Sunday morning. The produce was later auctioned off and £25 raised for the Kidney Research Unit of the Royal Hamadryad Hospital, Cardiff.

Competition winners received their trophies at a special presentation night held at the Dinas Powys Golf Club last Friday.

The Dinas Powys and Sully District Guides and Brownies' swimming gala was held at Penarth Baths last Saturday. There were some fine performances and the winners now go forward to the South East Glamorgan Divisional Finals on October 8.

A regular visitor to Penarth is one of two mothers who have created a new TV character. His name is Joe and he will shortly be seen all over the country in the BBC "Watch with Mother" series.

At Barry until Thursday was the Royal Navy patrol submarine Otus, which arrived at the weekend.

Launched at Scott's of Greenock in 1961 and commissioned in 1963, she is 295 feet long, has a displacement tonnage of 2,030 tons surfaced and 2,400 tons submerged, and a drought of HMS Otus, manned by 70 officers and men, has eight 21 inch torpedo tubes and is capable of high submerged speed and endurance.

Does any reader just happened to have a Surrey with a fringe on top? Although it will be seen for only a few moments, the Penarth Players are anxious to make it a prominent feature of their next show, Oklahoma.

Work on the long-awaited programme of large scale extensions to Penarth Grammar School is likely to start soon, it was revealed at the school's annual Speech Day at the Paget Rooms last Friday.

Last Sunday, nine young people from Sully went on a rambling trip to Llanthony. They started out from Sully at a quarter past nine in the morning in thick fog. Having taken the cars part of the way they decided to walk the next few miles.

Penarth did well to beat a powerful Lydney side by six points to five at the Athletic Field last Saturday. The visitors had been beaten only once before this season - by six points to three at Bristol - and had already notched 152 points.