Bottles from William Doig the Chemist.
Three Newport butcher shops.
Adverts for three local businesses, taken from the 1924 Guide to Newport.
Those of a certain age will remember using these old stamp machines. You popped in your penny, or two or three (old pennies of course, pre-decimalisation of 1971), and out came your stamp. In the days when snail mail was the only form of communication, these machines were lifelines when the post office was closed. ...
The only photograph we have ever seen of the inside of the old post office. This is Lillian Knight who lived at Royal Buildings, and who worked in the post office in the 1920s and 1930s.
