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High Street Newport Mon.

Jackson & Son postcard. Dated 1917. Ahead we can see the town bridge and the technical college beyond. To the right is Dock Street and to the left Shaftesbury Street. On the corner is the Shaftesbury Hotel. Newport Castle is tucked in behind the h...

Marianne Simmonds Mayoress of Newport 1912 - 1913

Marianne Simmonds (nee Marianne Middleton Weaver) was the wife of Charles Perry Simmonds. Together they ran the CP Simmonds stores, these included 148 Chepstow Road, 135 Caerleon Road, 160 Shaftesbury Street, 218 Stow Hill, London Street and Goldcrof...

Frank Quick, Mayor Of Newport 1927 - 1928

Photo and text from Johns's Newport Directory 1928. The Mayor Of Newport Councillor FRANK QUICK,J.P., Mayor of Newport, 1927-8, was born at Bristol on April 22nd, 1877, and was educated at Russell Town School and Barton Hill Board School. He st...