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Barry Island Pleasure Park is an amusement park situated on the coast at Barry Island in the Vale of Glamorgan, about 10 miles (16 km) south west of the capital city Cardiff, Wales. The park opens annually at weekends from Easter onwards and daily during the school summer holidays, until the first weekend in September.
There have been thrills, entertainment and sticks of candy floss at Barry Island Pleasure Park since 1897. With waltzers, a 32-seater space machine and an annual winter wonderland, this icon of ...
Barry Island holiday camp contained all the tried and tested Butlins ingredients: the famous Butlins Redcoats, funfair, early morning wake up with Radio Butlin, dining hall, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, ballroom; boating lake, tennis courts, sports field (for the three legged and egg and spoon races and the donkey derby), table tennis and ...
West End, Grand Bahama Island: 1950: Late 1980s: Ambitious undertaking constructing a 1000-guest holiday camp from scratch on a nearly completely undeveloped island, including building an airport. Operated for a single season before running out of money. The site is now occupied by a new hotel and marina complex known as Old Bahama Bay. Barry ...
The only remaining Hyper Value store is still running on the famous Barry Island and has become known as the place to go for all Gavin & Stacey merchandise. The retail group started as a market stall held by Ken Rogers which he leased on the Barry Island Pleasure Park around 25 years ago – later on Hypervalue owned the pleasure park.
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Barry Island railway station is the terminus of Network Rail's Barry Branch and connects with the main line and various Valley lines at Cardiff, about 9 miles (14 km) north, north-east of Barry. Further tourist attractions were developed on the island, and by 1934 the number of visitors to the fairground during the August Bank Holiday week was ...
Cold Knap Point is the site of a sewage pumping station serving Barry. [6] It was also the location of a case in English contract law - Chapelton v. Barry UDC [1940] 1 KB 532 - where a man's deckchair collapsed. The park is listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. [7]