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Number 59... but where?
I used an unusual route to find out where this house was located. Obviously it was number 59 and was on the flat, but where exactly? The postcard was postmarked Feb 14th 1911, and was addressed to "Master Trevor Haynes, Westcote, Agnes Road, Blund...
Newport Railway Station Staff
A & G Taylor Postcard. Great photo of the staff in front of adverts for trips to Weymouth and Aberystwyth... also a sign for Ganes: "INEXPENSIVE FURNITURE CARPETS CURTAINS BEDSTEADS P. E. GANE LTD 161 2 & 3 COMMERCIAL ST NEWPORT". Do you recogn...
E J Jenkins, Stationmaster, Newport High Street Station
Photo from "Newport Encyclopaedia. Coronation Year and Royal Visit Souvenir 1937."
Frank Quick, Mayor Of Newport 1927 - 1928
Photo and text from Johns's Newport Directory 1928. The Mayor Of Newport Councillor FRANK QUICK,J.P., Mayor of Newport, 1927-8, was born at Bristol on April 22nd, 1877, and was educated at Russell Town School and Barton Hill Board School. He st...
Newport High School, Bettws, 1973
Newport High School was originally sited at Queens Hill near the centre of Newport. In 1967 a competition was held for architects to design a new school to be constructed on a large site at Bettws, outside the town. The winning design, from 165 entri...
Newport High School, Bettws, 1973
Newport High School was originally sited at Queens Hill near the centre of Newport. In 1967 a competition was held for architects to design a new school to be constructed on a large site at Bettws, outside the town. The winning design, from 165 entri...
Walter Thomas Griffiths, Mayor of Newport 1928 - 1929
Walter T Griffiths and his wife Eleanor (nee Ford). After working as a baker's boy when thirteen and then at the Panteg Steel Works, Walter joined the GWR. He worked his way up to the occupation of engine driver and then was active in the union mo...
Walter Thomas Griffiths, Mayor of Newport 1928 - 1929
Walter T Griffiths and his wife Eleanor (nee Ford). After working as a baker's boy when thirteen and then at the Panteg Steel Works, Walter joined the GWR. He worked his way up to the occupation of engine driver and then was active in the union mo...
General View From St Woolas Cathedral, Newport
Frith's Series postcard.
Loco 5789 leaving Newport Station, 1960
Steam train leaving Newport Station. This gives us a good view of Mill Street... from the extreme right: GT Limbrick (Gwent Fisheries); Sam Weller Ltd (auto electrical engineers); George & Dragon (public house); Mollison H & Co Ltd (wholesale mer...