Volume 2, Number 33
A brawl on Commercial Street, stealing a pig's cheek, the Market Gate, Brynglas House for sale in 1842, the Friars house for sale in 1793, the disgraceful state of the streets and the dangerous docks.
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Volume 2, Number 32
A fire on Skinner Street, confusing house numbering, a careless gipsy, stealing glasses from the Windsor Castle pub and summer fashions at the Gold Boot shop on Commercial Street.
Volume 2, Number 31
An unprofitable public house, a mischievous glass of brandy, an accident with a revolver, a tamping mason, stealing meat from a shop window, an evening with Charles Dickens and visiting a stationery shop in 1884.
Volume 2, Number 30
Mr Charles Desmond and the Newport Circulating Library, property for sale in Malpas, stealing mutton, wilfully pushing persons off the pavement and the Newport police force.
Volume 2, Number 29
William Snailham, tithe map findings, ap place to get a breakfast at 4am in 1848, an elopement in Caerleon and a man known as "Blue Skin'.
Volume 2, Number 28
A gambolling porpoise, the Albert Saloon at the Parrot Inn, a pig travels across town, a young fellow of the Cyclops genus and a trip to Flat Holm.