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We have Caroline Davies of Davies, White & Perry to thank for preserving a wonderful watercolour of Newport High Street painted in 1838. It is fortunate that, not long after the painting was completed, a local person identified several of the characters and trades shown. The view is looking northwards towards the church.   The painting is by Henry Bryan Ziegler (1798–1874). He was a British artist, known as a landscape and portrait painter. He studied under John Varley, honed his…

NEWPORT YARDS As preparation for writing a new history of Newport, one of our members, Dave Hodson, has fully researched the yards of Newport. Dave was interested in finding out more about his great grandparents who lived  in Cock Yard alley and Bellman’s yard and so the search started there.             If we take Newport’s High Street from Lower Bar in the north to Upper Bar in the south, including St Mary’s Street, we can see strips of land, as laid out in medieval times,…