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Snaps from Barry Island
Barry Island, immortalised by the popular BBC sit-com 'Gavin and Stacey', provides the Jenkins family with ponies, paddling and a picnic
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Overview
Beautiful Barry Island, once referred to as the Blackpool of South Wales and more recently termed Barrybados, is the destination on a summer's day for the Jenkins family and friends. The sun has drawn crowds to Whitmore Beach. Pony rides and a tidal paddling pool are available for the young children, and a picnic, with china tea cups and bottles of beer, has been brought along. Even the middle-aged ladies of the party hoist up their dresses and get their feet wet!
Footage shot by Chris Jenkins, proprietor of 'Vanda's hair salon in Cardiff’s Charles Street (later Dumphries Place) and a stalwart member of Cardiff Amateur Cine Society. He was also a keen amateur artist and astronomer. Both he and his wife Beatrice feature (they are the couple on the left of the two couples seen standing up amongst seated people on the beach) as, it is believed, do their daughters Vanda and Barbara.
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