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Tram 34 Near The Dock Gates, Alexandra Road, Newport

Tram 34 bound for Caerleon at the terminus near the main entrance to Newport Docks. The police Station can be seen left of photo and beyond that the Waterloo Hotel. Notice the arrangement of the rails in the road ahead to enable the tram to change...

Courtybella Level Crossing - Gates Closing Sequence

Looking from Cardiff Road towards Mendalgief Road. January 1960. Whitehead Steel Works rear right of photo. From an original set of photos by British Railways (Western Region) Chief Engineers Office Photographic Section. If anyone wishes to rep...

Courtybella Level Crossing - Gates Opening

Looking from Mendalgief Road towards Cardiff Road. A wet December day 1959. The Royal Gwent Hospital rear right of photo. From an original set of photos by British Railways (Western Region) Chief Engineers Office Photographic Section. If anyone...

Belle Vue Secondary School From Across The Tracks

The school seen from the other side of the Courtybella Level Crossing.

WW1 Servicemen and Nurses Outside the Royal Gwent Hospital

While in hospital wounded soldiers wore the blue uniform seen in the picture above. We believe this photo was taken outside the Royal Gwent Hospital. It must have been cold waiting while the scene was arranged... note the figures viewing from t...

WW1 Convalescing Servicemen and Nurses outside The Friars Newport

A White House Studios Newport postcard. While in hospital wounded soldiers wore the blue uniform seen in the picture above. At the outset of the war it was arranged that the Royal Gwent Hospital would make space for 50 wounded servicemen and a ...

Wm. Kerslake Merchant and Warehousing and Forwarding Agent

Having large warehouses situated on the Newport Docks, with railway accommodation direct to our own private Railway siding... Source: Johns's 1901 Newport Directory.

GWR Station Newport 1907 Decked Out For Royal Visit

Station approach decorated for the visit of the Prince of Wales - the future King George V. He visited the Bath and West Show at St Julians Fields, off Caerleon Road.

Mr John Macaulay, General Manager of the Alexandra Docks and Railway Company

From the Newport Year Book, 1903.

Thomas Goldsworthy, Mayor of Newport 1896 - 1897, Chairman of the Newport Harbour Commission.

ALDERMAN THOMAS GOLDSWORTHY, J.P., the chairman of the Newport Harbour Commission, although not a native of the town, has been conversant with its progress and growth for nearly forty years. When still a child his parents removed from Gwennap, Cambou...