Barry Island: The Making of a Seaside Playground, C. 1790-C. 1965

by Andy Croll

Barry Island was one of the most cherished leisure spaces in twentieth-century south Wales, a playground for generations of working-class day-trippers. This book considers its rise as a seaside resort and reveals a history that is much more complex, lengthy, and important than has previously been recognized. As conventionally told, the story of the island as tourist resort begins in the 1890s, when the railway arrived in Barry. Yet Barry had been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 178683586X
• ISBN13: 9781786835864
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Length: 288 Pages