Bedwas, Newport Road c.1960
Photo ref:
B475019
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Co-operative stores sprang up everywhere in places like Bedwas to bring affordable shopping to the valley areas, where they were often the main or only source of groceries and goods. The Co-ops were set up in conjunction with the workers (hence their name). Note the women catching up on all the gossip outside the shop, and the boy resting from the strains of pushing his wheelbarrow. The few aerials on the chimneys in Newport Road show that TV ownership - or rental - had made little impact by 1960. What other services that we now take for granted might have just arrived via the large recently covered trench in the road?
An extract from Monmouthshire Photographic Memories.
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