# The Newport Cornucopia
> Uncovering Newport's interesting past
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## Pages
- [What's The Newport Cornucopia?](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/about.md) - The Newport Cornucopia was launched with the aim of uncovering interesting, historic and quirky articles and adverts from the last 150+ years of Newport's history. The archives of newspapers such as The South Wales Argus, Monmouthshire Merlin, The Cardiff Times and The Western Mail reveal a whole c…
- [Sign Up Free](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/signup.md) - Sign up to The Newport Cornucopia newsletter for free. You can unsubscribe at any time.
- [Newport History Social](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/social.md) - Fancy a relaxed evening of Newport history chat? Every few weeks we gather downstairs at the Pen and Wig pub for our Newport History Social. There’s no set day (though it’s often a Tuesday or Wednesday), and no rigid agenda — just a couple of hours of friendly conversation about the city’s past. Yo…
- [Sources](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/sources.md) - History is only as good as the evidence behind it. To ensure the stories on this site are accurate, I rely on a combination of contemporary reporting, cartographic analysis, and local archives. Below is a breakdown of the primary databases and archives I consult to research the articles on this sit…

## Posts
- [Volume 2, Number 33](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-33.md) - 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.
- [Volume 2, Number 32](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-32.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-31.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-30.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-29.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-28-2.md) - 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.
- [Newport History Help Desk](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/newport-history-help-desk.md) - 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 own. We spend most Saturdays researching at th…
- [Volume 2, Number 27](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-27.md) - 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.
- [Volume 2, Number 26](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-26.md) - 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.
- [Broadsheets and Bustle: Inside an 1850 Newport Newspaper](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/broadsheets-and-bustle-inside-an-1850-newport-newspaper.md) - 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.
- [Volume 2, Number 25](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-25.md) - 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.
- [Volume 2, Number 24](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-24.md) - 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.
- [Volume 2, Number 23](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-23.md) - Jack Sheppardism by a Ribbon Man, General Tom Thumb visits Newport, an attempted highway robbery near Langstone Court, stealing 9 glasses from a pub and the need for an extra milking cow for schools.
- [Volume 2, Number 22](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-22.md) - Paying for nuisances, a house for sale on King Street, the first burial at Newport Cemetery, a fire in Gold Tops, falling from a High Street window, the introduction of the parcel post, breaking a shop window and a domestic picture.
- [Volume 2, Number 21](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-21.md) - Names of street and numbers of houses, Newport shopkeepers exposing their goods, throwing a stone, Mr Bolt's new hotel and the first shops lit by electricity.
- [Volume 2, Number 20](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-20.md) - A lack of gum on postage stamps, a grand fete and gala on the Marshes, a proposed new public hall, a new street into Baneswell, a highway robbery by a soldier, overcrowding in Kear Street houses and fortune telling.
- [Volume 2, Number 19](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-19.md) - Newport nuisances, the need for a shelter at Llanwern Railway Station, a hungry thief, a dutiful daughter, cutting off a wife's nose, the Cherry Fair, the Newport gaol of 1835 and Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee.
- [Volume 2, Number 18](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-18.md) - The illuminated clock on High Street, a fire at Maesglas Farm, Cordey's Perfumery List, man fined for being drunk in his own pub, the need for hydrants on Gold Tops, the 'Egyptian darkness' of Barnard-town and attempted self-destruction.
- [Volume 2, Number 17](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-17.md) - A destructive fire on High Street, landlady falls out of a window of the Old Green Hotel, the Bath and West of England Show of 1888, footbridges across the Usk, keeping a game cock and On This Day in 1863.
- [Volume 2, Number 16](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-16.md) - A three day bazaar at the Wesleyan Chapel, stealing fowl, a pigeon match in Crindau, a 'rogue and a vagabond', the paper selling nuisance and Maoris visit Newport.
- [Volume 2, Number 15](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-15-2.md) - Sturgeon in the River Usk, house on Lliswerry Common for sale, the Carpenters Arms Club, a good natured simpleton and a dishonest tramp, the Battle and the Breeze pub, a hubbub in the market and a voracious cat.
- [Volume 2, Number 14](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-14.md) - Tightrope walking in Westgate Square, a fire at the rope walk, the state of the street, two boys drown in the Mill Pond, how much surgeons were paid at the Union hospital, a postcard to Dr Sutton and a 'rock band' visits Newport in 1847.
- [Volume 2, Number 13](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-13.md) - A disturbance in Quiet Woman's Row, Playing 'Cat', a bicycle contest, the 'Old Barn' hospital and emigrating to Philadelphia.
- [Volume 2, Number 12](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-12.md) - A den of thieves, a vicious bull, dispersing sailors congregating in the streets, Mr and Mrs Cordes' wedding procession and the Grand Annual Subscription Ball.
- [Volume 2, Number 11](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-11.md) - 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.
- [Volume 2, Number 10](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-10.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-9.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-8.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-7.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-6.md) - 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.
- [Volume 2, Number 5](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-5.md) - Taxi prices in 1895, the annual dinner at the Market Taverm, Griffin Street, staealing a two-foot rule, the King's Arms, Christchurch Hill for sale and a fire at a draper's shop.
- [Volume 2, Number 4](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-4.md) - Schools in 1850s Newport, the cost of burials in 1848, burglary at a clergyman's house, refusing to take a child from the workhouse and a month in prison for being drunk.
- [Volume 2, Number 3](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-3.md) - Special constable summoned for assault, fire at W.A. Baker, street preaching, salmon caught in the canal and ham stealing in Pill.
- [Volume 2, Number 2](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-2.md) - The first omnibus route in Newport, till robbing, the notorious Rendezvous pub, the blind sail around Newport, police accommodation in Pill and poor drainage in Ruperra Street.
- [Volume 2, Number 1](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-2-number-1.md) - Professor Crocker's Performing Horses, the January Sales, Fires, a trotting match, drunkenness stats of 1889 and complaining about the road to the Pill Barracks.
- [A Victorian Christmas in Newport](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/victorian-christmas-in-newport.md) - Step back into late-Victorian Newport through original archival adverts to discover a world of "monster" cheeses, elaborate "Cosaque" crackers, and the grueling festive rush that defined the local Christmas period in the late 19th century.
- [Volume 1, Number 53](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-53.md) - John Davies the Lame Chicken, emigrants on missing Newport, stealing cabbages, turnips, sheep and a wine glass and complaining about the police in Pill.
- [Volume 1, Number 52](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-52.md) - The election riots of 1852, a magnificent panorama, the orange peel nuisance, damages to pubs during election, beautifying Pill, Mr Bryan's lamp, an early mention of Jeddo Street and the Public Clock.
- [Volume 1, Number 51](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-51.md) - A coach accident near Pentonville, public footpaths at Uskside, the price of trams on Malpas Road, pigeons stolen in Clytha Square and the Constitutional Club opens on Stow Hill.
- [Volume 1, Number 50](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-50.md) - Boy drowns whilst bathing at the Great Western Wharf, fatal lamp accident, the new branch library in Pill, the Newport Sailor's Home, cottages on Ailesbury Street and Mr Cordes donates to the poor before going on holiday.
- [Volume 1, Number 49](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-49.md) - Stealing a cruet stand, a black thief, a message in a bottle, the opening of the Newport Corporation Baths, housebreaking, the Newport Newsboys' Picnic and furious cycling on Commercial Road.
- [Volume 1, Number 48](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-48.md) - 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.
- [Newport Picturedrome](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/newport-picturedrome.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-47.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-46.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-45.md) - 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](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-44.md) - 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.
- [Volume 1, Number 43](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-43.md) - The arrival of Bloomers in Newport, Tannaker's Temple of Japan, excursions to France with Great Western, the pitch and toss nuisance, wilfully damaging grass, the bell in the public clock and the Welsh Prince packet steamer.
- [Volume 1, Number 42](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-42.md) - Skating rinks, allowing bad characters in a beer house, a housewarming dinner, Peggy Pryde at The Empire and stealing hay.
- [Volume 1, Number 41](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-41.md) - A gallant otter capture, the Newport Census of 1831, the Newport Reading and Coffee Rooms, 'Cupboard Love', a rather vixenish-looking young wife and light-fingered damsels.
- [Volume 1, Number 40](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-40.md) - Fire at Clarence Terrace, a squabble of a glass of beer, stealing oranges, the state of the footpath to Caerleon, pleasant pathways near Stow Hill and the origin of the Old Barn?
- [White's Roman Amphitheatre](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/whites-roman-amphitheatre.md) - In June 1846, White's Roman Amphitheatre toured south Wales visiting Cardiff, Bridgend, Cowbridge and also Newport. The show took place at the New Cattle Market on June 18th, 1846 with one in the afternoon and one in the evening and featured horses, lions, tigers and leopards.
- [Volume 1, Number 39](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-39.md) - Lime kilns for sale near Newport Bridge, the ragged fringes of Newport, a rabid dog, smashing street lamps, the portico at the Parrot Hotel, attempted suicide by a cow and complaining about the state of Newport Bridge.
- [The Streets of Newport: An 1860 Lecture](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/the-streets-of-newport-an-1860-lecture.md) - Step back to 1860 Newport as Dock Street Chapel’s fiery preacher takes aim at 291 beer houses, poverty, quackery, and the town’s moral decline.
- [Volume 1, Number 38](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-38.md) - The Red and Blue House pubs, a 'Fine Fat Ox', annoying Mr Well, stealing a barber's pole, a subway between Cardiff and Mendalgief Roads, stealing turnip tops and an early tip near Mendalgief Road?
- [Volume 1, Number 37](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-37.md) - Offensive smells in Baneswell, improvements to roads in 1851, the Steam Packet bell, throwing snow balls in Llanarth Street, stealing a rabbit from the Coldra estate and trespassing at Brynhyfryd.
- [The Newport Clothing Club](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/the-newport-clothing-club.md) - The Newport Clothing Club of the 1840s was run by women, combining penny savings and philanthropy to keep working families warm.
- [Volume 1, Number 36](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-3-2.md) - Woodin's Olio of Oddities, a 1742 storm damages the sea wall, the Bachelors of Newport, sneaking in tobacco from the continent, houses for sale in 1840 and the speed of the omnibus on Stow Hill.
- [Volume 1, Number 35](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-35.md) - Bay windows, drunk man disturbs church congregation, a pestilential nuisance, disturbing the highway with a pig trough, a 'celebrated wall' on Bridge Street and the proposed widening of High Street.
- [The Old English Fayre, 1882](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/the-old-english-fayre-1882.md) - The Old English Fair at Newport’s Albert Hall turned the hall into a Tudor-style street with stalls, music, and performances to raise funds for the Infirmary and Free Library. Opened by the Duke of Beaufort, it drew huge crowds, with costumed volunteers and lively attractions boosting local support.
- [Volume 1, Number 34](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-34.md) - The opening of Brynglas House, public urinals in 1854, rogues at the fair, a 'black polar bear' for the People's Park, a fire eater visits Newport and 18th century mentions of Malpas.
- [Chartist Meeting of Victoria Square, 1840](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/chartist-meeting-of-victoria-square-1840.md) - Almost a year after the Newport Uprising took place on November 4th, 1839, two men from Bath held an open air meeting about the People's Charter in Baneswell. With outdoor meetings being restricted, the two men were apprehended shortly after and taken to court.
- [Volume 1, Number 33](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-33.md) - The urinals of Newport in 1868, a midnight brawl in Maindee, the opening of the Victoria Assembly Rooms, a trotting match, Newport's gas lights in 1825 and being taken home in a wheelbarrow.
- [Volume 1, Number 32](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-32.md) - Extending the Greyhound pub, neglecting to trim hedges, damaging a magazine at the Free Library, a proposed park on the Marshes, Cinquevalli, the King of Jugglers, visits Newport and hunting on the east side of Newport.
- [Ye Olde Newport Bazaar, 1922](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/tabernacle-centenary-bazaar-1922.md) - The Tabernacle Centenary Bazaar was a grand event which took place at the Drill Hall, Stow Hill in 1922 and featured a recreation of the Newport High Street in 1822 complete with the names of all the shops and offices.
- [Volume 1, Number 31](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-31.md) - The need for a sign at the hand post, North Street trams, house numbering, "the worst girl in town", stealing shrimps and keeping pigs in Maindee.
- [Volume 1, Number 30](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-30.md) - The price of houses on Victoria Place in 1874, leaving a wagon unattended at the Handpost Inn, stealing seven coats. Florodora at the Lyceum Theatre and a man dies during a funeral procession on Stow Hill.
- [The Great Van Amburgh Menagerie](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/the-great-van-amburgh-menagerie.md) - In September 1842, an American animal trainer arrived in Newport as part of his Welsh tour. He displayed an elephant, Bengal tiger, lion and several leopards in a field off Caerleon Road near Clarence Place.
- [Mr Cornwall's Royal Olympic Circus](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/mr-cornwalls-royal-olympic-circus.md) - In 1842, Mr Cornwall's Royal Olympic Circus visited Newport and over the period of around a month entertained residents of Newport including the Morgan's at an arena in Clarence Place.
- [Volume 1, Number 29](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-29.md) - Lliswerry House for sale, a need for lighting on the Marshes Road, the Newport Queen of Trumps, a fatal accident near Maindee, man changed with cleaning a horse on the highway, Mr Love the ventriloquist and a fire at Duckpool Farm.
- [Volume 1, Number 28](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-28.md) - A dreadful hailstorm in Caerleon, the Carpenter's Arms for sale in 1835, potato stealing, a 'fat, brazen, Amazonian lady', mud on the streets and did the town centre used to have a Fives Court?
- [Volume 1, Number 27](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-27.md) - The Ethiopian Melodists, stealing a spoon, a house for sale near the Court-y-Bella Machine, fighting in Pill and a trotting match between Newport and Cardiff.
- [Volume 1, Number 26](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-26.md) - The Happy Little Japs at the New Empire, a controversial nude painting, summer clothing for the police, furious driving and man dresses up as a women with a hideous mask and scares the residents of Baneswell.
- [Volume 1, Number 25](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-25.md) - Throwing stones at a train, stealing apples in Malpas, a deaf and dumb tippler, cabbies puffing and spitting at the High Street cab stand and installing a gas lamp near the George, Maindee.
- [The First Issue of the South Wales Argus](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/the-first-issue-of-the-south-wales-argus.md) - On Monday May 30th, 1892, The South Wales Argus and Monmouthshire Daily Leader was launched. This article gives a flavour for what was published and scans of the pages are included towards the end.
- [Volume 1, Number 24](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-24.md) - A poem about Malpas Court, bathing in the canal, Saint Brides Great House, the May Pole pub and stealing a cask of beer.
- [Volume 1, Number 23](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-23.md) - Woman trips in Blewitt Street, a cow gives birth to triplets in Malpas, keeping a game cock in Pill, early photography in Newport, runaway wife and otter hunting on Malpas Brook.
- [Newport High School for Girls](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/newport-high-school-for-girls.md) - The Newport High School for Girls opened on 21st September 1880 on Stow Hill and had the backing of some very well known Newport citizens. A large amount of information about the pupil's achievements was published by the Monmouthshire Merlin which is published in this article.
- [Volume 1, Number 22](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-21-2.md) - A modern ballad monger, cock-fighting accusation in Baneswell, Tygwinbach Lane being impassable by man or beast, work on the South Wales Railway and Ta-ra-ra Boom-de-ay at The Empire.
- [Volume 1, Number 21](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-21.md) - Unwelcome visitors at a farm in the Gaer, a court tries to decide on whether bread is 'fancy', one of the worse houses of ill-fame, farms for sale in Maindee, vandals cut trees on Cardiff Road and stealing a ladder.
- [Volume 1, Number 20](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-20.md) - Renaming Marshes Road, a snub-nosed, thick-lipped white-negro sort of girl,Lockhart's Elephants at the Empire, ruffians commence a Cherokee War and an argument over red apples.
- [Renewal of Licenses](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/renewal-of-licenses.md) - Taken from the Monmouthshire Merlin in 1843, a description of publicans renewing their licenses at the Newport Town Hall.
- [Cam Bryan Road](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/cam-bryan-road.md) - I've always wondered whether Cambrian Road is pronounced 'cam-bree-an' like the mountains and the geological period or 'cam-bryan' like I've always called it?
- [Fox Hunting in Ringland](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/fox-hunting-in-ringland.md) - A report from Boxing Day, 1936 where Newport Harriers were invited to take part in a fox hunt around the Ringland and Coldra areas.
- [Volume 1, Number 19](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-19.md) - The dangerous state of Stow Hill pavement, Is Newport a littery town?, the furthest distance flown by a young pigeon to Newport, Bets the Cripple and the Leicester Duchess and stealing a sack of flour.
- [For Sale: Numbers 1 and 3, Clarence Place](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/for-sale-numbers-1-and-3-clarence-place.md) - Two adverts appeared in the Monmouthshire Merlin a few months apart — the first in December, 1833 for the sale of No. 1, Clarence Place, the second in March, 1834 for the sale of No. 3 Clarence Place. Like previous posts on houses for sale (e.g. Two Cottages near Chepstow Road, A Commodious Dwellin…
- [For Sale: Two Cottages Near the Royal Oak Pub](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/for-sale-two-cottages-near-the-royal-oak-pub.md) - An advert from 1842 for two newly built cottages located near the Royal Oak pub off Chepstow Road.
- [The 1836 'Hurricane'](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/the-1836-hurricane.md) - On the evening of Monday 28th and into Tuesday 29th November, a violent storm hit Newport, the rest of Monmouthshire and the Bristol Channel causing damage and some deaths.
- [Crimes in the 15th Century](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/crimes-in-the-15th-century.md) - Cattle stealing, housebreaking, assault, rape, robbery. A record of the crimes being committed in Newport and surrounding areas in the late 15th century.
- [Volume 1, Number 18](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-18.md) - The Empire's Puzzle Pictures, Robert Baden-Powell visits Newport, Sarah Bernhardt performs at the Lyceum, stealing hair, a noisy milkman and a mother beats her child with a potato masher.
- [For Sale in 1778: A Mansion House Called the Fryers](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/for-sale-in-1778-a-mansion-house-called-the-fryers-2.md) - A 1778 advert from the Bath Chronicle described a mansion house for sale called the Fryers.
- [Volume 1, Number 17](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-17.md) - The town's wooden paving, being drunk and "obstropulous", six week's hard labour for stealing trousers, stealing a spoon and a shocking discovery in the river Usk near the St Julian's Inn.
- [For Sale: One Used Slave and Whaling Vessel](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/for-sale-one-used-slave-and-whaling-vessel.md) - The short history of how a ship called the African Queen shipped slaves from Africa and went whaling in the South Seas ended up for auction in Newport in 1802.
- [Volume 1, Number 16](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-16.md) - The Russian Gun, a tee-totaller arrested for being drunk, rook shooting, the ‘Greatest Ventriloquist in Europe’ visits Newport, the Monster American Circus and an immense broccoli.
- [Volume 1, Number 15](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-15.md) - The introduction of the "Queue" at the Lyceum Theatre, the stench funnel on Stow Hill, the quality of water in Pill, mud on Corporation Road and what to do with the Russian gun at the Cattle Market.
- [The First Motor Car In Newport](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/the-first-motor-car-in-newport.md) - On Tuesday 24th November, 1896 a Benz motor car was exhibited at the Tredegar Show and it may have been the first car to appear in Newport.
- [Fire-Eater Visits Newport](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/fire-eater-visits-newport.md) - For six decades Robert Powell toured the country with his fire eating show where he would eat hot coals as if they were bread, eat a soup of brimstone and lead and even broil beef over a hot coal on his tongue. In 1753 and 1766 he visited the King's Head in Newport.
- [Volume 1, Number 14](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-14.md) - A month on the treadmill, stealing water, a drunk little old Welshman, the fire engine committees report, nuisance out-of-town-girls and bears in Maindee?
- [The Prison Dietary](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/the-prison-dietary.md) - A report from 1854 discussing the diets of the prisons of the county gaols including ensuring that the food was below that of a workhouse to discourage people choosing a prison life.
- [Volume 1, Number 13](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-13.md) - Breaking the Sabbath in Caerleon, taking a nap in a hay loft, boy steals 20lb of bacon and complaining about the speed of public coaches.
- [Alteryn Skating Field](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/alteryn-skating-field.md) - In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Allt-yr-Yn was home to a very popular ice skating field. Hundreds would attend daily making its owners a sizeable sum of money.
- [For Sale: A Commodious Dwelling-House](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/for-sale-a-commodious-dwelling-house.md) - In September 1770, a large house belonging to a Mrs Kemeys was advertised for sale located near the Market House on High Street. But where exactly was it?
- [Volume 1, Number 12](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-12.md) - Driving too far to the weighing machine, the dangerous and filthy state of pavements, Jack the Cripple, a stolen Merino coat, a foot race at Rogerstone, a runaway horse and the Zanettos play the Empire.
- [Charles Morgan’s Tredegar Cattle Show](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/charles-morgans-tredegar-cattle-show.md) - The Tredegar Cattle Show ran for over 100 years from 1819 first at Court-y-Bella Farm and then Newport Cattle Market. This is just a brief snippet from a few years in the 19th century.
- [Dickey Taylor, the Idiotic-Looking Elf](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/dickey-taylor-the-idiotic-looking-elf.md) - A miserable, lean, and idiotic-looking elf with the vacant stare of a maniac, and the tattered appearance of a thoroughbred vagrant. A Baneswell resident charged with singing in the street.
- [Milo the Muscular Giant](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/milo-the-muscular-giant.md) - Milo the Muscular Giant was an Italian-born strongman who performed at The Empire in Newport in January 1894. He was a classic strongman of the 19th/20th centuries.
- [Newport (Monmouthshire) Roads Act 1811](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/newport-monmouthshire-roads-act-1811.md) - A description of turnpike roads, costs for animals and vehicles, the requirement to install mile posts and offences such as not be allowed to throw fireworks on the road.
- [Volume 1, Number 11](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-11.md) - Stealing a side of bacon, onion thieves, a call for buses to Malpas, assault with a saucepan, girl hits child in face with bible and complaining about how people walk in Newport.
- [A Description of Newport and Caerleon in 1803](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/a-description-of-newport-and-caerlaround-1803.md) - Rev J Evans' tour of South Wales including mentions of the bridges at Newport and Caerleon and the Charity School in Caerleon.
- [1731: When Caerleon's Bull Inn had a Bowling Green](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/1731-when-caerleons-bull-inn-had-a-bowling-green.md) - Back in 1731, an advertisement for the Bull Inn, Caerleon mentions a bowling green being available, but where exactly was it?
- [Letting Newport Castle in 1797](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/letting-newport-castle-in-1797.md) - An advertisement posted in 1797 offering to let Newport Castle. Contains information on the different buildings and their dimensions.
- [18th Century Miscellany — 1730-1749](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/18th-century-miscellany-1730-1749.md) - Stolen horses, mentions of early pubs, houses for sale, the cattle market, the Sea Wall being breached, town and Caerleon bridges brought down by ice, cock fighting and a school in need of a headmaster.
- [Volume 1, Number 10](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-10.md) - A complaint about a muddy Maindee street, Valentine's Day dying out, baptising in the river Ebbw, a complaint about those who drop orange and banana peels and sparing a thought for those who can't pronounce street names.
- [Newport Charter of 1711](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/newport-charter-of-1711.md) - A detailed charter of 1711 describing how food should be sold at markets, requirements for going to church on a Sunday, looking after your hedges and paths and brewing small beer for the poor.
- [Volume 1, Number 9](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-9.md) - Planting potatoes in town, throwing cardboard, stealing ham, the finest strawberries and an 11-year-old imprisoned and whipped for stealing coal.
- [Transporter Bridge Miscellany](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/transporter-bridge-miscellany.md) - Digging through the archives looking for interesting snippets such as fare for plebeians, a suggestion of putting a big Newport sign on the top, what the approaches should be called and the first suicide attempt.
- [Volume 1, Number 8](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-8.md) - The Malpas Mud, stealing a piece of bacon, a new fire engine tested in Pill, an excited teetotaller, 'rounding off' the National Provincial Bank and a circus running out of beer.
- [When Miniature Golf Arrived in Newport](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/when-miniature-golf-arrived-in-newport.md) - The Miniature Golf craze reached Newport in 1930 with the launch of an outdoor course and two indoor courses with the space of a few months. Here's the brief history of their arrival.
- [History of the 'Newport Races' at the Marshes](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/history-of-the-newport-races-at-the-marshes-2.md) - In the first half of the 19th century, the Marshes (Shaftesbury Park) was home to horse racing and the annual Newport Races. This is the history of those races.
- [Volume 1, Number 7](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-7.md) - The Crindau Pigeon Match, a sturgeon caught in the Usk, an automatic stamp machine installed in Maindee, the noisy hot cross bun-boys, and Cambrian Road being built.
- [The Launch of In Shops](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/the-launch-of-in-shops.md) - As part of a revamp of Kingsway Centre, the In Shops was opened in October 1986 and featured 163 retail units and a food court. Here's how the opening day went.
- [Newport's Little Switzerland](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/newports-little-switzerland.md) - For at least 160 years, Little Switzerland has been a spot in Newport known for its ’double view’ of Twmbarlwm and the Bristol Channel. Here’s a potted history of how it developed over time.
- [When GWR Owned Station Approach](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/when-gwr-owned-station-approach.md) - How the Great Western Railway used to ensure that Station Approach remained a private road and how the Coporation redeveloped the site.
- [Volume 1, Number 6](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-6.md) - Vintage W.H. Smith adverts, stealing swedes, the Caerleon Leek, a ball at the King’s Head Inn, two wretched urchins and the 'one of handsomest smacks' ever to have launched in Newport.
- [The Great Circular Road](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/the-great-circular-road.md) - A proposal in 1911 to build a Circular Road and Main Avenue which is very similar to today's M4 and SDR roads.
- [1832 Newport Boundary](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/1832-newport-boundary.md) - An article the Monmouthshire Merlin published in 1832 describing the complete boundary of Newport.
- [Volume 1, Number 5](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-5-2.md) - Lazy people at the Free Library, a muddy Stow Hill, the Wild West Show digging up Shaftesbury Park, Caerleon protesting at busy buses and what’s on at the cinema in wartime.
- [Why is Trade Bad in Newport?](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/why-is-trade-bad-in-newport.md) - It’s no secret that trade in Newport has been in free fall for some time but who‘s to blame? A fascinating letter from 1907 reveals that problem has been around for some time.
- [Volume 1, Number 4](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-4.md) - Twelfth Night festivities and horse racing at Tredegar Park, the price of making a phone call and parents being advised to give their criminal son a ‘thrashing’.
- [Volume 1, Number 3](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-3.md) - Lady Tredegar hands out blankets to the poor, the new St Mark’s Church on Gold Tops is announced and a man is found in the mud of the river Usk with a cask of beer.
- [Volume 1, Number 2](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-2.md) - A 50 mile cycling race, pirated music, a new lighting scheme proposed for Caerleon and new branch post office on Watchhouse Parade.
- [Volume 1, Number 1](https://www.newportcornucopia.co.uk/volume-1-number-1.md) - A foot race on Marshes Road, the Gas Cooking Exhibition of 1897, sheep stealing and man trying to use a lamppost to light a cabbage leaf.

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