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The impressive Barry Urban District Council offices opened in 1908.

The houses in this road were the largest and most impressive in Barry, and were occupied by mainly business and professional people.

The finest prospect of Barry's Palace of Westminster is to be enjoyed from the river, where the facade extends to a length of almost a thousand feet.The strong vertical detailing was clearly intended

Trentham Hall, from the southwest.

Barry permitted Sir Horace Jones to encase his steel skeleton in stone until it resembled an iced cake.

Unfortunately, Cadoxton Bowling Club stole the march on them by opening 3 hours earlier, thus becoming the oldest bowling club in Barry.

Barry Island was a popular holiday destination for the valley miners for their annual 'miners' fortnight'; suits, caps, full-length skirts and hats appear to be the order of the day.

By the time that this photograph was taken, very little of Barry Castle remained.

Lancashire landowners since the 15th century, the family achieved prominence in 1589 when Richard Shuttleworth, a successful London lawyer, was knighted and appointed Chief Justice of Chester.

This circle of stones, known locally as the Druids Circle, was placed in the park and used for the proclamation ceremony of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales in Barry in 1920.

The Twyn and its surrounding wall were built in the 1890s with money from the Barry Railway Company when they purchased a small piece of the common from the parish.

On the Windsor bank the non-Etonian spectators watch the Procession of College Boats.

The 65-acre Meare (the correct spelling at fantasy Thorpeness) was dug out of marshland to provide a boating lake for children.

Rose Cottage, one of three cottages built for farm workers, is the foremost cottage in this photo.

The finest prospect of Barry’s Palace of Westminster is to be enjoyed from the river, where the facade extends to a length of almost a thousand feet.The strong vertical detailing was clearly intended

This shows a quiet day at Barry beach, with the only sign of life a rowing boat with its landing ramp.

After a good fishing trip, the drifters have unloaded their haul into baskets known as swills.

With a beautifully attired young lady at its centre, this photograph brilliantly captures the fin de siecle elegance of the seafront.

This village, on the A4055 between Penarth and Barry, is so small that it could be easily overlooked.

Major improvements in transport facilities around 1890 put the industries of Barry and Cardiff in easy reach for the first time.

This 'superb temple of legislation' in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

This ‘superb temple of legislation’ in Tudor Gothic was built to replace the old medieval Palace which burned down in 1834.

Holidaymakers at this time could be forgiven for thinking that there was something of an army camp about the site!

This is a truly historic photograph, which shows the lowest crossing of the river Thames (except for the new Dartford motorway bridge) on the day it opened in 1894.