HERE are more fascinating images of Barry Dock featured on the Barry Island Historical Group on Facebook.
From the crew of a tug boat enjoying a tea break to a selection of ships moored at the dockyard in times gone by - the photographs show a time when Barry Docks was a hive of industrial activity.
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Late 1940s / Early 1950s - The crew of the tug-boat "St. Baruch" on their tea-break
Late 1950s - A view of Number 1 Dock as seen from half way up Battery Hill. The building in the foreground is the old hydraulics pumping station. It was badly damaged by a German bomb in World War Two and the damage was never repaired.
1950s - MV "Yewcrest" is seen here approaching the lock gates in order to leave Barry Docks
1950s - MV "Southern Garden"
Circa 1956/57 - The Norwegian ship "Vera" unloading its cargo in number 2 Dock.
A black and white advertising postcard from the 1900s for J. Rank Ltd., Atlantic Flour Mills, Barry Dock
To see more historic images of Barry visit facebook.com/Barry-Island-Historical-Group
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