Usk, The Riverside c.1960
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Photo ref: U59035
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Here we see Conigar Walk running down the bank of the River Usk. We can also see the old railway bridge crossing the river in the centre of the photograph in the distance; and it is still to be found here, albeit disused.

An extract from Monmouthshire Photographic Memories.

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A Selection of Memories from Usk

For many years now, we've been inviting visitors to our website to add their own memories to share their experiences of life as it was, prompted by the photographs in our archive. Here are some from Usk

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I was brought up in gwehelog no usk very poor and I can ember vividly very hungry most of the time oh and ice inside the windows I was so cold yet we had coal or rather wood from our local fields we used to call it top woods bottom woods when I say we I mean I had three brothers who I certainly looked up to at times. I would like to add I how have one brother left he lives in nz too far for ...see more
I'm Teresa Shackell/Torrington I remember very well my nana used to work washing the dishes and I used to go regularly over to the three salmons hotel and help her she was in her 90s then she never gave up her little job as long as I can remember she was quite a character can anyone out there remember a Mrs Harriet AnnDavies I was her granddaughter she lived over the bridge in the little cottages