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'Newport
First Stop' - 100 Years of News Stories Newport
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1815
- 1819
The Newport British School, Old Green, was opened on the 28th March, 1815, it was open to all denominations alike to come and partake freely of its benefits. Children were admitted from the ages of six up to twelve. On Sundays their attendance at the respective places of worship chosen by the parents was most strictly enforced and attended to.
John Lee is dead, that good old man
Many people are still living who remember when Tivoli house, near Stow Gate, was occupied by "Molly Rosser's Farmhouse," - an antique building, with orchards adjoining the roadside which were almost esteemed the property of the apple-loving juveniles of that day; and broad acres extending towards the town and the road to Cardiff. Molly has long been numbered with the dead; but could she revisit earth she would look upon her old farm with surprise for there now stands upon the site Tivoli Rouse, and the magnificent residence of Thomas Hughes Esq., surrounded by a noble grove of trees and blooming gardens known as King's Hill.
Newport's First Market House stood in High Street and was demolished in 1793. The Second Market House was built by the Duke of Beaufort in 1817, on the present site. The cost of its erection may be shown by the following items: Messrs Waters and Jones, for erecting the new Market House, £1,790 14s.6d.; Messrs Wathington, for slates, £224.7s.Od,; Sir Charles Morgan, for the land, £100; Mr. Protheroe, jnr., for preparing the conveyance, £20; and Mr. Walter Gwatkins, for superintending the erection, £50; total £2,394.2s.l0d.
An organ has been installed in St. Woolos Church. There are no Churches in the town of Newport, St. Woolos is outside the boundary. [ Back ] |
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