Volume 1, Number 5
Lazy people at the Free Library, a muddy Stow Hill, the Wild West Show digging up Shaftesbury Park, Caerleon protesting at busy buses and what’s on at the cinema in wartime.
Lazy people at the Free Library, a muddy Stow Hill, the Wild West Show digging up Shaftesbury Park, Caerleon protesting at busy buses and what’s on at the cinema in wartime.
Twelfth Night festivities and horse racing at Tredegar Park, the price of making a phone call and parents being advised to give their criminal son a ‘thrashing’.
Lady Tredegar hands out blankets to the poor, the new St Mark’s Church on Gold Tops is announced and a man is found in the mud of the river Usk with a cask of beer.
A 50 mile cycling race, pirated music, a new lighting scheme proposed for Caerleon and new branch post office on Watchhouse Parade.
A foot race on Marshes Road, the Gas Cooking Exhibition of 1897, sheep stealing and man trying to use a lamppost to light a cabbage leaf.