Volume 2, Number 42
A duel at Rodney House, a coach to Liverpool in under a day, the soldier's coffee house outside the barracks, the burglary at Woodlands and stealing fruit from Belle Vue.
Newport Cornucopia
Check out the latest posts
Volume 2, Number 41
The Placards in Front of the Town Hall, the new bridge at Shaftesbury Park, a stabbing near St Julian's Farm, dandelion coffee and reindeer tongues for sale at Comptons and the man thought to have created pulling a rabbit out of a hat visits Newport in 1866.
Volume 2, Number 40
Sir Charles Morgan's bronze statue, a Saturday night brawler, stealing a pair of boots, the state of the fish and vegetable market, charges against a toll collector, a hayrick on fire at St Julians and a marriage unfortunately spoilt.
Volume 2, Number 39
Two boys drown in the Mill-pond, the new cemetery, a dirty steam packet, a diminutive little urchin, shameless language in Friars' Fields, the Newport Sacred Harmonic Society, the Soldiers' Coffee House and the Clown Cricketers visit the Marshes.
Volume 2, Number 38
Greedy builders disregard bye-laws, an hour's heavy slogging, a gaudily attired woman, a fire on Commercial Street, a PC disappears for five hours whilst on duty, unruly children in Park Square and a poem about a grand fete on the Marshes.
Volume 2, Number 37
An omnibus incident near St Julian's Inn, assault with a cabbage, robbing a bread cart, pickpockets at High Street station, a gas explosion at the Queen's Hotel and Sanger's Mammoth Equestrian, Zoological, and Military Hippodrome visits the new Cattle Market.