THREE letters in a recent Barry & District News caught my attention, those of Dean Scurlock of Penarth and D J Radford of Barry.
They are extremely well argued and a pleasure to read; that of Glyn Pooley not so.
He (the latter) believes we do not need a funfair on the Island. I disagree.
So far as I am aware, Mr Pooley does not live on the Island. I lived there for 30 years when the funfair and Butlins, then Majestic, were in full operation.
I and my family never had cause to complain, and I only moved reluctantly after my second divorce as I did not need a five bedroom house overlooking Jackson’s Bay all on my own.
Mr Pooley calls for quietude but visitors to the Island come for the whole seaside experience – sand, the sea, ice creams, curry on chips and, for children, the funfair.
If they want a quiet park they can already go to Maslin Park, Parade Gardens, Porthkerry, and Friars Point plus around the headland to Jackson’s Bay.
The funfair element would be denied by grumpy artist Glyn Pooley. When I lived there with my first wife, the fine artist Professor Gerda Roper, we also had artist Jack Crabtree as a near neighbour.
Artist friends and two world famous “Magnum” photographers came to stay and loved taking photographs of the trippers at the funfair.
Mr Pooley should lock himself into his studio and let the rest of us have some fun with our grandchildren.
Christopher Short
Barry
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