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03/11/2026

2027 Festival

Home page of Grace Williams Festival. A month-long festival in Barry in February 2027, marking 50 years since the death of Welsh composer Grace Williams.

03/11/2026

East Barry House

03/11/2026

🎎 Japanese Culture Day – Remembering Barry’s Japanese Museum (1907)
Today is Japanese Culture Day (Bunka no Hi) a celebration of Japan’s art, learning, and creativity. Over a century ago, Barry marked its own connection with Japan when, in 1907, a Japanese Museum opened at Barry Free Library, thanks to the generosity of Miss E. P. Hughes.

The exhibition explored what Western Europe could learn from Japan especially its deep respect for education and moral teaching.

A wonderful reminder that even in 1907, Barry was looking outward to the wider world.

02/11/2026

Before the docks transformed Barry, Cadoxton was a rural world of old beliefs, superstition, strange stories, fields and ancient lanes.

02/11/2026

🔵 It's Look for Circles Day!
From architecture and street features to everyday objects, circles are all around us.
We've been looking at Barry through a circular lens today. Here are a few of our finds!

01/11/2026

Garden Suburb 1926

01/11/2026

🍂 Calan Gaeaf – The First Day of Winter
Today, 1 November, is Calan Gaeaf, traditionally marking the first day of winter.
In Welsh tradition, this was a time when the nights grew longer, winter settled in and old stories told of spirits, witches and strange happenings.
In her 1909 book Folk-Lore and Folk-Stories of Wales, local folklore collector Marie Trevelyan recorded a story about a butcher living near the sea at Cadoxton-juxta-Barry, who was said to be the son of a witch.

An old woman, believed to be his mother, had the ability to transform herself into a hare.

One day, three gentlemen set their greyhounds after the mysterious animal, chasing it through the fields and into a house. Somehow, the hare's foot became caught in the doorway before the animal suddenly disappeared.
The following day, the old woman was found to be very lame. Local people claimed that she had been left with a hare's foot for life!
A wonderful piece of Cadoxton folklore preserved for us by Marie Trevelyan.

01/11/2026

31/10/2026

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