Newport, High Street c.1950
Photo ref:
N25140
More about this scene
Newport has a rich history, with Roman occupation at Caerleon, a medieval castle, and the Chartist Rising of 1839, which was put down by troops. However, it was as one of the powerhouses of Britain's industrialisation, producing vast quantities of coal, iron and, latterly, steel, that Newport became the town it now is. Hi-tech companies now fill the void left by the destruction of these heavy industries. Newport has become a busy sister city to Cardiff, with some good examples of Victorian architecture. Yet in 1951 there was a coal shortage that led to all shop windows being blacked out just a few years after the Second World War had demanded the same treatment! The few cars and heavy queues for buses seen here tell their own story about city transport and life in post-war Wales.
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