MEMO, BARRY

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VIA: Sheree Conibear.



Front cover of the booklet to commemorate the Offical Opening of the Barry War Memorial Hall by Miss Davies of Llandinam and Unveiling Ceremony by Rt Hon Lord Davies.

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VIA: Sheree Conibear - Barry & Wales at Heart.

During the 1920’s, the people of Barry decided that they wanted to build a memorial for all the Barry people who had lost their lives fighting for our freedom during the First World War. People thought that it would be fitting to build a hall and a Cenotaph. The people of Barry were behind this idea wholeheartedly and each person donated a penny. The descendants of David Davies also generously donated, and the money raised was enough to build the hall and Cenotaph. The cost was £26,000 which was a huge amount of money in those days.



The hall and the Cenotaph were opened in 1932, and the theatre and hall were completed and opened in November 1933.

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Barry Merchant Navy - WW1 And WW2 Roll Of Honour:

BARRY/ Merchant Navy Roll of Honour/ Great War/ 1914 - 1918/ Second World War/ 1939-1945.

Hall of Memory
Barry Memorial Hall
Gladstone Road
Barry
Vale Of Glamorgan
South Glamorgan
CF62 8NA
Wales

Roll of Honour. Leather bound volume in a display cabinet. Copy is kept in a drawer below.

Dedicated
Date: 11th November 2007
Attended by: Rev Susan O'Hare.

Mr Frederick Hortop (Writer)
Barry College (Carpenter)

This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. P

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2007 saw the 75th anniversary of the opening of the Memorial Hall and the dedication of the Hall of Memory and Cenotaph.

The years had taken their toll, and both the Hall of Memory and the Cenotaph were in need of restoration and improvement. The trustees commissioned a report to survey the memorials and recommendations were made to restore them and bring them up to legislative standards.

The cost of the work was estimated at £60,000 and the ‘Barry Remembers’ appeal was launched to raise this sum in time for the work to be completed for the 75th anniversary on November 11th 2007.

£92,000 was raised, and the support of the community, local authorities and the generosity of many organisations and individuals was outstanding.

The fundraising also enabled the reproduction of the updated Merchant Navy Association’s Role of Honour, which contains the names of more than 600 merchant seamen from Barry who died in conflicts, and is displayed within the Hall of Memory.

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