Volume 2, Number 11
The Mothering Cakes of the 1840s-1860s, a fashionable wedding, rescuing pigs from a pound, stealing peas, a blanket and a watch, Nanny Lancy and the new rope works in Clarence Place.
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Volume 2, Number 10
Wombwell's Menagerie, a mad cow, Ramo Samee the Indian Juggler, the Old Westgate Inn , the Stow Pound and wondering where the 'Gas Yard' was in early Victorian Newport.
Volume 2, Number 9
The African Roscius at the Theatre Royal, Macarte's American Circus, stealing trousers turnips and oranges, the police station at Pill, the first direct importation of sherry and a large egg.
Volume 2, Number 8
Mad dogs, pauper burials, Bets the Cripple, trap doors in the High Street, the town sewers, a new omnibus service and the Ethiopian Serenaders
Volume 2, Number 7
The 1847 Poll Book of Monmouthshire, drunkards, pugilists and window smashers, a school on Devon Place and houses for sale on Baneswell.
Volume 2, Number 6
The Phantascope playing at the Victoria Hall, a queer horse transaction, a man beaten by his father-in-law, the bell ringing nuisance and more lights in Maindee.