Volume 1, Number 15
Sturgeon in the River Usk, house on Lliswerry Common for sale, the Carpenters Arms Club, a good natured simpleton and a dishonest tramp, the Battle and the Breeze pub, a hubbub in the market and a voracious cat.
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Volume 2, Number 14
Tightrope walking in Westgate Square, a fire at the rope walk, the state of the street, two boys drown in the Mill Pond, how much surgeons were paid at the Union hospital, a postcard to Dr Sutton and a 'rock band' visits Newport in 1847.
Volume 2, Number 13
A disturbance in Quiet Woman's Row, Playing 'Cat', a bicycle contest, the 'Old Barn' hospital and emigrating to Philadelphia.
Volume 2, Number 12
A den of thieves, a vicious bull, dispersing sailors congregating in the streets, Mr and Mrs Cordes' wedding procession and the Grand Annual Subscription Ball.
Volume 2, Number 11
The Mothering Cakes of the 1840s-1860s, a fashionable wedding, rescuing pigs from a pound, stealing peas, a blanket and a watch, Nanny Lancy and the new rope works in Clarence Place.
Volume 2, Number 10
Wombwell's Menagerie, a mad cow, Ramo Samee the Indian Juggler, the Old Westgate Inn , the Stow Pound and wondering where the 'Gas Yard' was in early Victorian Newport.