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.
News85
Check out the latest posts
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.
Volume 2, Number 4
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
Special constable summoned for assault, fire at W.A. Baker, street preaching, salmon caught in the canal and ham stealing in Pill.