The Newport History Society recently came into possession of daybooks, ledgers, correspondence and newspaper cuttings of the late Thomas Pemberton, kindly donated by his niece. They give a fascinating insight into the life of a blacksmith in the twentieth century whose career spanned the vast changes in farming practices from horse-pulled ploughs to full mechanisation. Thomas kept pace and adapted his work from making horse shoes and mending farm machinery to more intricate and creative wrought…
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September 27th, 2022 in Blog, Local History Links, Newport Shropshire history, Newport Then and Now, NewsWe 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…
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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,…
Read more…History of Newport The New History of Newport, as part of the Victoria County History Shropshire, had its scoping study completed in April 2019 and is available here. The Volumes that will comprise this history will also be known as the Newport Red Book. This section of the website will keep you up-to-date with all developments and progress in this project which is now entering a new phase in which professional historians take up the story with the tireless support of all our…
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New Life for the Victoria County History Linda Fletcher, the Society’s Archivist, went to a meeting of the newly revived Victorian County History group at Shropshire Archives on 27th February. Historians will be researching and writing up Wem’s history in the next couple of years, in order to publish a VCH “short” (a single place study) of Wem, and after that it will probably be the turn of “Newport and the Weald Moors”. V C H was founded in 1899 and…
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