Volume 1, Number 48
The Newport water famine, the Royal Albert restaurant, porpoises in Newport, the Parrot Hotel's concert room burns down, the 'Glorious Fifth' and a disagreeable-looking sinner of the feminine gender.
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Newport Picturedrome
The Picturedrome was an ambitious cinema focused on entertainment and education in a safe and modern theatre. It ran between 1911 and 1914 and was located where Nationwide is today.
Volume 1, Number 47
Stealing scissors and three teaspoons, boy 'ordered to be well whipped', Newport Alms Houses, levelling out Hill Street's 'rugged hillocks', the Windbound Tavern and houses on Clifton Place.
Volume 1, Number 46
Boat hits Newport Bridge, the Newport to Raglan coach, an inspection of beerhouses in 1849, stealing bacon, stealing a lamb in Malpas and what's on sale at Cordey's in 1876.
Volume 1, Number 45
Pont Ebbw Mill, the 'Dos Works Lads', keeping a male servant without a license, throwing a stone at a sister , the Plum Pudding Parade, Newport's best swimmer drowns and bare knuckle fighting at the Dock Street Drill Hall.
Volume 1, Number 44
The Newport Camera Club's Lantern Exhibition, Fossett's Grand Circus, the Park Machine, the Sir Charles Morgan monument, the beefeaters of Pill and the Newport Waits.