Two photographs of big freeze on the river in January 1982, when ice floes coming down the river piled up on the Newport shore.
Sandford Country House Hotel reminders - hotel brochure 1999, tarriff card from 1966 and Christmas menu from 1998.
Leaflet outlining the history of Sandford House.
Photograph shows international cricketer Ian Botham on the dual carriageway above Newport in 1985. He is on his charity walk from John o' Groats to Land's End. Botham's charity walks earned more than £12 million for children's charities.
The Leng Chapel at Vicarsford Cemetery, two miles south of Newport. Built on a hill, the chapel is a memorial to John Leng's first wife Emily.
Leng Chapel Inscription Panel. The Memorial to John Leng's first wife Dame Emily Leng, and also remembrance of his second wife Mary.
Detail of the ceiling in the Leng Chapel.
Two stained glass panes from the staircase window in Netherlea House, demolished in 2019.
I've always found this mural on the blocked up gable window of the house at the bottom of James Street rather intriguing. I've now learned that it was done around 1975 by four-year-old Boo Paterson (now a successful artist) and her older brother who lived in this house. They collected sea glass from the shore ...
A framed aerial view of Woodhaven Farm taken in 1986.
Four amazing photographs showing the real Blyth Hall roof. In 1974 a false ceiling was installed in the hall, which no doubt helped with heating, but it hid this magnificent roof. Architect Robert Lorimer, designer of the Scottish National War Memorial in Edinburgh Castle, and of our own Newport memorial, described this ceiling as one ...
Photograph shows the first houses of Netherlea Place being built in the mid-1980s. The name Netherlea is a reminder of the nearby Netherlea House which was demolished in 2019.
