For the past few months, our monthly evening socials have been a great way to catch up and talk local history. However, we know a late-night pub environment doesn’t suit everyone, and it’s easy to get stuck when you’re trying to look up details on your...
Yewberry Cottage for sale, 159 Commercial Street, the double bascule bridge at Dos Forge, what to buy at Cordey's in 1879, stealing a tame rabbit and taking too many kidney beans.
A spelling bee at Malpas, a shocking railway accident, a school on Park Square, the death of a gypsy child, the strength of beer in Newport and the great tenor Sim Reeves visits Newport.
A single 1850 edition of the Monmouthshire Merlin reveals a fast-paced, shifting Newport. Explore the human stories behind the high-status shops of Commercial Street, the grand vanished estates, the private academies of Stow Hill, and the stark realities of dockside crime.
The Baneswell Issue — The contaminated well in Baneswell, an alarming fire, stealing a live duck, Sunday evening amusement, replacing the old cottages in Baneswell and a young woman shot in Jones Street.
The supply of gas, dock policemanship, a drunken post-boy, a nocturnal treat, theft from the Silver Grill, a travelling tinker and Chung Ling Soo at the Newport Empire.