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  • Sheriffhales Roman Investigation Report
    December 16th, 2013 in Newsletter

    The Sheriffhales Roman investigation was carried out by members of the Newport History Society on the 14th November 2013. It took place in the field where the ‘Sheriffhales Roman Coin Hoard’ was found by Mr Terry Hayward on the 2nd August 2009. The aim of the survey was to locate the site of the hoard and re-excavate it in an attempt to find further coins and pottery related to the original hoard. When the hoard was discovered, only the base of the pot was found to remain intact. The rest…

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  • Newport ‘s “town crier” or “bellman”
    May 22nd, 2013 in Newsletter

      A new historic object has been loaned to Newport Heritage Centre. This is a wooden plaque, which was displayed in ancient times above the door of the town crier’s house. It was originally given by Mrs Mary Bennett to Bill Goldsborough (Newport Urban District Council) and has been loaned to us by his daughter, Mrs Marjorie Cooper. The plaque has caused us to review what we know about town criers. For example, what did they do? Before people were literate, and were able to read…

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  • Our comments re TWC application on Edgmond road, 85 houses.
    May 20th, 2013 in Newsletter

    TWC/ 2012/ 0297 Development on green belt land bordered by Edgmond Road (B5062) Chetwynd Road and Green Lane Here are Newport History Society’s remarks and objections to the above application. In this report, when we refer to the fields of the planning application, we shall use the local field names; that is, from the 1842 Tithe Apportionment Map (see CMGS figure 7) Newport History Society has been in existence for over 30 years and has numerous research publications to its credit. We…

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  • Memories of Newport and District History Society
    May 24th, 2012 in Newsletter

    At least as early as 1979 a group of local people, who were interested in history, were looking at the topography of the town and gathering together artifacts which they had found on their Sunday walkabouts. A History group was set up by  Berwick Roberts, Ray Edwards, a carpenter, Neil Edwards, his brother, Roy Sumnall, an artist,  Heather Williams, an art historian with Paul Custance and  Terry Gilder, who was Editor of the Newport and Market Drayton Advertiser. Ray was the first Chairman…

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