Charles Street Early 1900s

Postcard - maker unknown.

Looking from Commercial Street up to Stow Hill. On the left the Talbot Hotel then the Empire, on the right Reynolds house furnishers and drapers.
(Photo from a private collection)

Listing from Johns 1911 directory:

Charles Street,

(From 149 Commercial Street to Stow Hill)

THE EMPIRE - Moss Empires, Ltd. Proprietors
(here is Talbot Lane)
Foslett & Co. gas fitters
6 Miles T. cabinetmaker
7 Cozens F. R. embroiderer
8 Pacello Mrs. Emily
9 Morris W. Chas. tailor
10 Bird A. G. house decorator
11 Powles F. W. builder
ENGLISH BAPTIST CHURCH
NEWPORT ELEMENTARY EDUCATION OFFICES
Eaves T. A. sec. Squire Caleb, caretaker
17 Rogers G.E. & Co. plumbers
18 Lefcovitch Israel, tailor
19 Harper Rd. greengrocer
20 Budge Madame, costumier
21 Bible and Tract Depot

(return)

22 Martin Hubert, grocer
23 Rowberry Wm. herbalist
24 Coxon John, fruiterer
25 Pope Wm. bootmaker
26 Watts Fdk. plumber, etc.
27 Shewring Jos. sign writer
28 Maddocks Jos. eng. driver
29 UNITARIAN FREE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
30 Quick Wm. carman
31 Mendelsohn Louis, tailor
32 Morris W. Chas. tailor
33 Fennell Albert, hairdresser
34 Cohen Isrl. confectioner
35 Woods H. watchmaker
(entrance to Infants' School and Cookery Centre)
39-40 Reynolds & Co., Ltd., house furnishers & drapers