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Volume 1, Number 38

The Red and Blue House pubs, a 'Fine Fat Ox', annoying Mr Well, stealing a barber's pole, a subway between Cardiff and Mendalgief Roads, stealing turnip tops and an early tip near Mendalgief Road?

Volume 1, Number 37

Offensive smells in Baneswell, improvements to roads in 1851, the Steam Packet bell, throwing snow balls in Llanarth Street, stealing a rabbit from the Coldra estate and trespassing at Brynhyfryd.

Volume 1, Number 36

Woodin's Olio of Oddities, a 1742 storm damages the sea wall, the Bachelors of Newport, sneaking in tobacco from the continent, houses for sale in 1840 and the speed of the omnibus on Stow Hill.

Volume 1, Number 35

Bay windows, drunk man disturbs church congregation, a pestilential nuisance, disturbing the highway with a pig trough, a 'celebrated wall' on Bridge Street and the proposed widening of High Street.

The Old English Fayre, 1882

The Old English Fair at Newport’s Albert Hall turned the hall into a Tudor-style street with stalls, music, and performances to raise funds for the Infirmary and Free Library. Opened by the Duke of Beaufort, it drew huge crowds, with costumed volunteers and lively attractions boosting local support.

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