Barry, Vale of Glamorgan 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 South Wales 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. Behind the docks rose the terraced houses of Barry which, with Cadoxton, soon formed a sizeable town. The
Just Before the War with the Eskimos Just Before the War with the Eskimos "Just Before the War with the Eskimos" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, originally published in the June 5, 1948 issue of "The New Yorker". It was anthologized in Salinger's 1953 collection "Nine Stories", and reprinted for Bantam in "Manhattan: Stories from the Heart of a Great City" in 1954. It is a tale of adolescent alienation and redemption in a post-World War II setting. It focuses primarily on fifteen-year-old Ginnie Mannox's meeting with her classmate Selena Graff's older brother, Franklin. Poet and "New Yorker" editor Dorothy Parker described the story