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YESTERDAYS NEWPORT

Written by Terry Underwood
Published by Terry Underwood in 1980
ISBN: 0907143008

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YESTERDAYS NEWPORT
Written by Terry Underwood.
Stock no. 1326392
1st. 1980. Hardback. Large format. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Book One Photographs of Old Newport up to and including the Year 1920. A pictorial record describing the way we were, where we lived, worked and played; memories of yesterdays contributed by the people of Newport in Gwent. Brown cloth, gilt. Sepia photos. ISBN: 0907143008. SIGNED by the author to front free-endpaper. Spine slightly bumped. Foxspots to textblock. Dustwrapper is just a little edge creased, tear to top of rear panel.

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£ 14.00 Photo of YESTERDAYS NEWPORT- Stock Number: 2139277

YESTERDAYS NEWPORT
Written by Terry Underwood.
Stock no. 2139277
1st. 1980. Hardback. Large format. Very good condition in a very good dustwrapper.

Large format. Book One Photographs of Old Newport up to and including the Year 1920. A pictorial record describing the way we were, where we lived, worked and played; memories of yesterdays contributed by the people of Newport in Gwent. Brown cloth, gilt. Sepia photos. ISBN: 0907143008. Page edge browning; some marks. Wrapper is edge-creased with closed tear to rear panel; a few nicks.

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Front cover

Cover of YESTERDAYS NEWPORT by Terry Underwood

Contents

  • Foreword by Leslie Thomas
  • Author's Introduction
  • Newport...Long Ago
  • This Man Frost
  • Oh Days of Yesteryear
  • The Town, Its Streets and Shops
  • Newport Town and Transporter Bridges
  • The Town - Bird's Eye View
  • The Morgans of Tredegar
  • The Parks
  • People at Work
  • Early Transport in the Town
  • People at Ease
  • Newport Rugby
  • Newport County
  • Johnny Basham - Boxer
  • Newport Celebrations
  • The Post Office
  • Newport Police
  • Newport Fire Brigades
  • Theatres and Public Buildings., All the World's a Stage
  • Newport at War (1914-18)
  • Schooldays
  • The Docks
  • Newport's Industry
  • Its River and Canals
  • Library and Museum
  • Royal Gwent Hospital
  • The Coming of the Railway
  • The Outskirts of the Town
  • Acknowledgements and Contributors