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THE OTHER BARRY SCRAPYARDS

Barry’s former docks area has been Btransformed in recent years. New houses line the water front. There are green spaces. Barry Island’s Pleasure Park has been completely restored and is now a thriving tourist attraction. There’s even a solar farm nearby.

It’s not so long ago that, where there is now clean brindle block paving, an unimaginable amount of coal was exported. As for those rows of redundant steam locomotives, you could almost be forgiven for thinking that

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