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.
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.
Front cover
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