Newport First Stop - 100 Years of News Stories

By Derrick Cyril Vaughan

"Newport First Stop" was originally published privately in 1990
by Derrick Cyril Vaughan, Newport.

Acknowledgements

The editor of the South Wales Argus
The archivist at Gwent County Records
The curator of Monmouth Museum
Mrs. Strong and the staff of the Newport Reference Library
Mrs. Dulcie Phillips
H.O. Wallace Jones Esq.
T.J. Friend Esq.

The many unknown journalists of the Monmouthshire Merlin, the Star Of Gwent, the Cambrian, the South Wales Argus etc. whose articles having been disinterred
to once more see the light of day.

- Dedications -

The book is dedicated to Noel Frank Eady a Newportonian of Spirit, Insight and Humour.

The title, 'Newport First Stop', refers to the arrival in Newport
on 18th June 1850 of the first train.
- Newport was the first stop on the line. -

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