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The Tredegar Dry Dock Newport Mon
The "Oswestry Grange" (deadweight, 10 000 tons), undergoing repairs in the Tredegar Dry Dock. From "The Alexandra Docks, Newport" published 1914: "This dry dock, which is one of the largest in the Bristol Channel, is situated midway between the...
The Tredegar Dry Dock
The "Kintuck" (deadweight, 8 000 tons), undergoing repairs in the Tredegar Dry Dock, Newport Monmouthshire. From "The Alexandra Docks, Newport" published 1914: "This dry dock, which is one of the largest in the Bristol Channel, is situated midw...
Railway Bridge Over Corporation Road
The road on the right before the bridge is Kelvedon Street. Through the bridge, on the left we can see Dudley Street and just about make out Walsall Street. The shop just after Dudley Street is Rosslyn Stores Ltd., grocers no. 277 Corporation Road. ...
Railway Bridge Over Corporation Road
We are looking towards Newport Town Centre. On the left just after the bridge is Kelvedon Street and further on to the right is Vivian Road. Those people on the bridge don't look like they're up to any good! The business on the right is Bel-Air Dr...
Railway Bridge Over Corporation Road
The road on the right is Kelvedon Street, just beyond the bridge on the left is Dudley Street and we can just see a car turning into Walsall Street. The shop just past Dudley Street is no. 277 Corporation Road Rosslyn Stores Ltd., grocers. The hoar...
Parade - Opening Of New Post Office 1907?
A&G Taylor Pictorial Postcard, Duke St Arcade, Cardiff etc. Postmarked Newport Mon 1907, dated 5 Oct '07. We think this is probably connected with the opening of the New Post Office in High Street on July 18th 1907. Interestingly the photograph...
Henry Charles Parfitt, Mayor of Newport, 1918 - 1919
(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) MR. COUNCILLOR HENRY CHARLES PARFITT, the occupant of the Newport Mayoral Chair for 1918-1919, was born at Abersychan, on 16th December, 1858. He is the eldest son of the late Joseph Parfitt, a fo...
Sir Henry Mather-Jackson, Bart.
(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) Mather-Jackson, Sir Henry, Bart., C.B.E., is chairman of the Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway, chairman of the Marianao and Havana Railway Co., deputy-chairman Grand Trunk Rai...
Sir Thomas Edward Watson Bart.
(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) Watson, Sir Thomas Edward Bart. who has been connected with the port of Newport for more than 40 years, was born 1st January, 1851, and is the eldest son of the late Edward Watson, West Hartlepool...
John Herbert Vickery
(Photo and text from "Who's Who In Newport" 1920.) Vickery, John Herbert General Manager of the Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway, gained his experience in the course of a varied career with the London and South Western Railway...