YESTERDAYS 1960

CARDIFF artist Mrs Cherry Whitehead today made a last-ditch appeal to her neighbours to support her in fighting the “desecration by the parks committee” who plan to cut down dozens of trees in the Cathedral Road area.

“I appeal to anyone in the area to help me with this petition – before the axe falls on more trees,” she said.

“The committee have already started to execute their plans for removing every tree in Talbot, Hamilton and Teilo Streets,” said the 28-yearold artist at her Cathedral Road flat.

“Every tree in Talbot Street has gone already. The inadequate reasons for removing theses lovely trees are that they require costly pruning and are too large The trees that are being removed are suited to the Victorian architecture of these houses. They are tall and beautiful.”

Support for Mrs Whitehead’s petition is coming in already. Residents in Talbot Street, left, where fresh mortar and new paving stones mark the spots where lovely sycamores grew, are angry that the trees have gone.

“Those trees were there when I came 40 years ago,” said Mrs EA Davies. “Now our street is bare. I feel almost lonely without those sycamores.” CHRIS Williams was walking along the beach at Rhoose a few days ago when he came across a bottle washed up on the tide.

And in the bottle was a note from a Pontypridd girl. Wendy Davies had put the note in a bottle and dropped it in the sea at Scarborough last September.

In thick black lead on the now salt-stained paper Wendy, wrote: “Put in the sea on September 11, 1959, by Wendy Davies, now on holiday at Scarborough, Yorkshire. I am from Pontypridd, Wales. Would you please tell the South Wales Echo of Cardiff.” CALLED to a recently vacated house in the middle of the Canton area of Cardiff, men from Britton’s Dairies Ltd, who supply many retail dairies in the Cardiff area, found over 1,500 empty milk bottles in a heap in the small backyard.

The bottles at a bottle a day comprise four years’ supply.

A dairy official said the bottles were all unwashed and could never be used again – a loss to the dairy of £37.

“This was just one of the many calls we receive to collect large quantities of bottles throughout the city, although we have never experienced anything quite like this before.” CARDIFF dockers today refused to handle a cargo of bones from Turkey