Barry (Welsh: Y Barri) is a town in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. Located just a few miles from Cardiff, the capital of Wales, Barry lies on the south coast and is a popular seaside resort, with attractions including a beach, and the Barry Island Pleasure Park. Originally Barry was a small village neighbouring the larger villages of Cadoxton and Barry Island. Today, Barry has swallowed both of these villages and the area is known as Barry with small areas or parishes known as Cadoxton and Barry Island.

The name of Barry probably derives from Saint Baruc who was drowned in the Bristol Channel and buried over Barry Island. Cadoxton, too, takes its name from his superior, Saint Cadoc, and it is around the Medieval church of St Cadoc that the old village grew up. The church still survives, as do some of the older village houses.

The town was originally a fishing port, and grew when it was developed as a coal port in the 1880s. The coal trade was growing faster than the facilities at cardiff in Tiger Bay ever could and so a group of colliery owners formed the Barry Railway Company and chose to build the dock at Barry. Work commenced in 1884 and the first dock basin was opened in 1889 to be followed by two other docks and extensive port installations. The Barry Railway brought coal down from the valleys to the new docks whose trade grew from one million tons in the first year to over nine million tons by 1903. The port was crowded with ships and had flourishing ship repair yards, cold stores, flour mills and an ice factory. By 1913, Barry was the largest coal exporting port in the world. The town is often associated with Woodhams' Scrapyard, a business that helped over 200 historic steam locomotives survive into preservation.

Although still a port, Barry is more important now as a manufacturing town and the administrative centre of the Vale of Glamorgan. Barry Docks and the adjoining industrial area form the largest employment centre in the town. The docks, whose road links were dramatically improved with the opening of the Docks Link Road in 1981, now have direct road access with the M4 motorway. The docks can handle vessels up to 23,000 tons and the first-class tidal position close to the deep-water channel of the Severn Estuary, allows for regular scheduled sailings.

These are a handful of pictures taken around my home town for you to see.