Post by Admin on Sept 28, 2022 0:48:31 GMT
From 2013:
Seafarers’ memorial set for the Barry ((Dock) Waterfront:
DOCK No 1 at Barry Waterfront will welcome a new addition at the end of September, when an anchor memorial is installed at the site to pay homage to the many Barry seafarers’ who have sailed from the town’s dock over the years.
The Barry branch of the Merchant Navy Association (Wales) spearheaded the idea for the memorial during this Year of the Convoy (2013) and with the support of the Vale of Glamorgan council and Associated British Ports (ABP), the plans for a memorial are about to become a reality.
ABP has granted the council a licence for the work, and officers from the council’s project management unit, landscape team, and visible services department have been working with the group to support the project.
The Anchor has been donated by a local seafarer and is currently being prepared before being mounted at its new home on the Barry (Dock) waterfront.
The Leader of the Vale Council, Coun Neil Moore, together with Vale Council cabinet members Couns Lis Burnett and Chris Elmore, joining the chairman of the Barry branch of the Merchant Navy Association, Jim Greenway, vice- chairman, Joe Norton, and ABP Estate surveyor, Byron Lewis, to see the start of work.
Coun Moore said: “We have been working with Jim Greenway and his colleagues for some months now in an effort to provide the necessary support to deliver this scheme, and I think that, when completed, the anchor and its setting will provide a fitting memorial in this historical location.”
Mr Greenway said: “We are delighted that the project is about to begin and look forward to the day the anchor will be available for all to see.”
Bench marks brave and leading men of Barry:
Also on: Wednesday 21st August 2013.
A DEDICATION service honouring all Barry merchant seamen and a former chairman of the Royal British Legion Barry branch has been held in Barry.
The Memorial bench tributes to the brave seafarers and stalwart leader John Hobbs who died, aged 79, in April 2012.
The service was conducted by Father Ben Andrews, of St Mary’s church, of which John was a member.
John’s son Robert said: “I am very proud.
“I think he deserved it and it’s nice that he will be remembered long after I’ve gone and the people of Barry will be able to sit and reflect on not just the men who fought, but all the service men who died for our country.
“I had a tear in my eye and although I think he deserved it he would think there’s a lot more people that deserved it more than him.
Legion president Keith Harris said the RBL branch and the Barry branch of the Merchant Navy Association (Wales) had both thought benches be fitting tributes.
Association chairman, Jim Greenway said the funding had become available thanks to generous donations from an elderly lady and a sum of money from a member who attended a Dutch merchant navy college and ended up at a nuclear power station in Japan.
Jim said: “The lady wanted the brave men of the merchant navy to be remembered and we thought a bench near the cenotaph would be a good idea.”
Seafarers’ memorial set for the Barry ((Dock) Waterfront:
DOCK No 1 at Barry Waterfront will welcome a new addition at the end of September, when an anchor memorial is installed at the site to pay homage to the many Barry seafarers’ who have sailed from the town’s dock over the years.
The Barry branch of the Merchant Navy Association (Wales) spearheaded the idea for the memorial during this Year of the Convoy (2013) and with the support of the Vale of Glamorgan council and Associated British Ports (ABP), the plans for a memorial are about to become a reality.
ABP has granted the council a licence for the work, and officers from the council’s project management unit, landscape team, and visible services department have been working with the group to support the project.
The Anchor has been donated by a local seafarer and is currently being prepared before being mounted at its new home on the Barry (Dock) waterfront.
The Leader of the Vale Council, Coun Neil Moore, together with Vale Council cabinet members Couns Lis Burnett and Chris Elmore, joining the chairman of the Barry branch of the Merchant Navy Association, Jim Greenway, vice- chairman, Joe Norton, and ABP Estate surveyor, Byron Lewis, to see the start of work.
Coun Moore said: “We have been working with Jim Greenway and his colleagues for some months now in an effort to provide the necessary support to deliver this scheme, and I think that, when completed, the anchor and its setting will provide a fitting memorial in this historical location.”
Mr Greenway said: “We are delighted that the project is about to begin and look forward to the day the anchor will be available for all to see.”
Bench marks brave and leading men of Barry:
Also on: Wednesday 21st August 2013.
A DEDICATION service honouring all Barry merchant seamen and a former chairman of the Royal British Legion Barry branch has been held in Barry.
The Memorial bench tributes to the brave seafarers and stalwart leader John Hobbs who died, aged 79, in April 2012.
The service was conducted by Father Ben Andrews, of St Mary’s church, of which John was a member.
John’s son Robert said: “I am very proud.
“I think he deserved it and it’s nice that he will be remembered long after I’ve gone and the people of Barry will be able to sit and reflect on not just the men who fought, but all the service men who died for our country.
“I had a tear in my eye and although I think he deserved it he would think there’s a lot more people that deserved it more than him.
Legion president Keith Harris said the RBL branch and the Barry branch of the Merchant Navy Association (Wales) had both thought benches be fitting tributes.
Association chairman, Jim Greenway said the funding had become available thanks to generous donations from an elderly lady and a sum of money from a member who attended a Dutch merchant navy college and ended up at a nuclear power station in Japan.
Jim said: “The lady wanted the brave men of the merchant navy to be remembered and we thought a bench near the cenotaph would be a good idea.”
