Amelia Earhart Visits Burry!

Burry Port hit the international news in 1928 when American aviator Amelia Earhart flew from Newfoundland with co-pilots Wilmer "Bill" Stultz and Louis "Slim" Gordon in a Fokker F7 and landed in Burry Port harbour (lucky the marina wasn't there then) becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.
It was quite an event it would seem, and lots of locals rushed down to the harbour to greet Amelia. My grandmother and her sisters were among them but they always told me that the famed pilot was quite hot tempered and not as friendly to her greeters as has been reported elsewhere. Of course the woman had just crossed the Atlantic in a tiny sea plane so its not suprising she was a little tetchy. We Welsh always expect others to be as hospitable as we are, even if they've completed a massive challenge.

Seaplane 'Friendship lands