Transporter Bridge - Artist Impression
Postcard: Greenland & Sons, Newport, Mon. Naïve picture to give an impression of the bridge before it was completed. The message on the reverse is fun, though... it predates the poem 'Disobedience' by A.A. Milne but has some similarity. Pass...
Beechwood Road - The Spooners Paradise
A comedy postcard. It harks back to the days when there were places popular with 'courting' couples. Other favoured locations were the canal towpath and the transporter bridge. This card was published by Stanley Jones, New Arcade, Newport, M...
View of Newport from the Transporter Bridge
Postcard view. From the private collection of Patrick White.
View of Newport Mon. from the Transporter Bridge
Postcard view. From the private collection of Patrick White.
Transporter Bridge Newport Mon.
The main girder is 177 feet above high water mark, and has a span of 645 feet. Postcard from the private collection of Patrick White.
Electricity And Tramways Committee, 1905 - 1906
AR Bear, G Greenland, JH Williams, WA Baker, LS Abrahamson, C. Collier FP Robjent, W Evans, J Liscombe (mayor), WH Brown (chairman), F Phillips (vice chairman), J Twomey, HC Parfitt, RJ Searles RH Haynes (borough engineer), Lde R du Verge (depu...