At a busy Baneswell crossroads stands an unassuming stone wall with a hidden past. Far from modern street furniture, its vernacular masonry reveals a surviving remnant of an 1840s rural occupation road, stranded amidst the Victorian terraces that grew around it.
What you could see and who you could encounter on a stroll through 1750s Newport from Stow Hill, along the High Street and onto Malpas and Caerleon.
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.
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.
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.
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.