Newport Dock Disaster Memorial, St Woolos Cemetery
This impressive granite and bronze memorial can be found in Newport's St Woolos Cemetery. A poem, called Soldiers of Industry, written by W. J. Collins Editor of the South Wales Argus, can be seen on the memorial.
Newport Dock Disaster Memorial, St Woolos Cemetery
This impressive granite and bronze memorial can be found in Newport's St Woolos Cemetery. The names of the dead are poignant - some were known only by their surname recorded in the pay book. Some were not from the Newport area but men looking for w...
View Of Newport.
Probably taken from St Woolos Church. Postcard view, maker unknown. Early type where message had to be written on the same side as the picture - address only on the other side. From the private collection of Graham Jarvis.
Oliver James English
Oliver was killed in the Newport Dock Disaster, July 1909. Photo courtesy of M Hunter, Oliver's great-niece. He is named on the memorial in St Woolos Cemetery.
Aerial View West Newport
Belle Vue Park, Cardiff Road, Royal Gwent Hospital, The Friars, Belle Vue Lane, Friars Road and St Woollos Hospital.
Morning Milk For The School Children
From the South Wales Argus, October 13th 1934. "Newport school children are supplied with milk at school under a scheme. It costs the children only a halfpenny a day. Infants at St, Woolos School take their milk very seriously."
St Woolos School Photo 1949 / 1950
Chris Evans (third from left, front row) sent us this photo. What a happy group!
Day Trip In A Charabanc
Photo kindly sent to us by Chris Evans. He thinks it may be St Woolos Cathedral in the background. Can you supply any information about this picture? Frances Walker has contacted us to say it looks like Tintern Abbey - it does, doesn't it! Tha...
St Woolos Cemetery - Grave Diggers 1
Malcolm Periam sent us this photo. He said: "The gentleman holding the cat was my Great-Grandfather Robert Periam (Snr). The gentleman on the right of the back row was my Grandfather Robert Periam (Jnr), the photo was taken in the early 1920s afte...