The Scaffies' Ball was one of the highlights of the Newport social calendar! An annual pub get-together in the Gauldry Arms between burgh surveyor Jack Morton and the scaffies, started around 1966, eventually developed into the Scaffies' Ball. Photograph is from 1978, ticket from 1977.
A photograph of a head and shoulders sculpture of Mrs Blyth Martin by Italian sculptor Tadlioni, on show in the Blyth Hall. The bust was unveiled at the grand inauguration ball in October 1890 held in the Blyth Hall on the completion of the hall extension to the rear. The extension, like the hall itself, ...
A rather unusual event is described in this newspaper cutting from December 1899. It appears that an entertainment was organised annually for local (young!) shop assistants. Although no venue is named, the mention of upstairs and downstairs would suggest the Blyth Hall. In Victorian times, a 'conversazione', as mentioned here, would be a discussion usually ...
Newscutting about the renovations and extension to the Blyth Hall completed in 1974.
An early wedding group outside the Blyth Hall. Note the ornate iron railings and the rug on the ground for the photograph!