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THE NEWTONIAN
THE JOURNAL OF NEWTOWN LOCAL HISTORY GROUP |
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Copies of THE NEWTONIAN can be obtained in the following ways:- |
- From members of Newtown Local History Group, price £1.50
- From The Robert Owen Museum, Broad Street
- From Sugar & Spice, Severnside Centre, Short Bridge Street
- From The Simmering Cauldron, 7 Short Bridge Street
- From Costcutter, Lower Canal Road
- By post, price £2.00 in the UK, £2.50 in the EU and £3.00 overseas
from Rhoswen, Bryn Street, Newtown, Powys, SY16 2HW.
Please make cheques payable to "Newtown Local History Group"
Back numbers are available at the same rates.
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HOW TO CONTACT US:
BY POST:
The Newtonian, Rhoswen, Bryn Street, Newtown, Powys, SY16 2HW
BY E-MAIL:
davidpugh05@aol.com
The cover and contents list of each issue can be seen on;
www.penmon.org/page94.htm
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CONTRIBUTIONS:
We welcome contributions on any subject concerning Newtown and its history.
They can be submitted either in writing, typescript, CD, or by e-mail.
Photographs or documents submitted will be computer scanned and sent back to the sender by return of post.
COPYRIGHT:
Copyright of The Newtonian is held by its publisher, Newtown Local History Group.
No part of The Newtonian may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without permission in writing from the publisher. |
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NEWTOWN LOCAL HISTORY GROUP |
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Newtown Local History Group meets at 2pm in All Saints Church, Commercial Street, Newtown, usually on the first Monday of each month. The meetings are open to anyone who has an interest in the history of Newtown. | |
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VOLUME 53 SUMMER 2013
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CONTENTS
Old Newtonians
David Pugh
The Long Bridge is too narrow
David Pugh
New Publications:
A CENTURY IN NEWTOWN
1901 - 2000
Newtown Local History Group
NEWTOWN AND LLANLLWCHAIARN
THE FALLEN IN WORLD WAR I
ADDITIONAL TO THOSE NAMED
ON THE TOWN CENOTAPH
Newtown History Group
Reader's letter
Dr Slyman and cholera in Newtown
Joy Hamer
That zealous pioneer
David Pugh
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 52 SPRING 2013
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CONTENTS
Where we used to shop
Gina Rademan
Gwendolen Williams and the Robert Owen bust
Brian Poole
Dolforwyn and a "new town"
David Wilson
Unmapped places
David Pugh
Exploring Newtown
A heartfelt plea
The bus that didn't make it.
Newtown's military tribunals in the Great War
David Pugh
Who are they?
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VOLUME 51 WINTER 2012 |
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CONTENTS
Journey's End
Ken Davies
The Severn through Newtown
David Pugh
Recent Publication
Real Powys
by Mike Parker
Who are they
A hobby horse remounted
David Pugh
The Tan House
Gina Rademan
David W. Thomas Ltd
Brian Poole
Who are they?
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VOLUME 50 AUTUMN 2012 |
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CONTENTS
Boating on the river
David Pugh
Miss Medina
Sally Rackham
Our Little Angels
David Pugh
Jack and Brian
The Diamond Jubilee in Newtown
David Pugh
New publications
Newtown Carnival Queens
Newtown Calendar 2013
Reader's letter
The story of the stones
Gina Rademan
Jobs for ex-servicemen
David Pugh
Who are they?
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VOLUME 49 SUMMER 2012 |
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CONTENTS
How the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
was celebrated
David Pugh
A Newtown prisoner in the Great War
Brian Poole
Memories of the Cambrian Foundry
Ken Glover
New Publication
Geraint Goodwin, His Life and Works
by James Whetter
Readers' letters
Newtown's Welsh Senior Cup Finals
Ken Davies
Who are they?
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VOLUME 48 SPRING 2012 |
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CONTENTS
A facelift for the Warehouse
David Pugh
Dutch children in Newtown
Mary Oldham
What happened to our carpet ?
David Pugh
Question time
Gina Rademan
Coincidences and French horns
David Wilson
Readers' letters
Some notes of brickworks in Newtown
David Pugh
The Severn Engineering Company in Newtown
Brian Poole
Who are they?
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VOLUME 47 WINTER 2011 |
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CONTENTS
Our lost war memorial
David Pugh
Historic mediaeval treasure
saved for the town
Mary Oldham
Pryce-Jones documents deposited
David Pugh
The Bungalow - a notable Newtown House
David Pugh
Celebrating the jubilee
David Pugh
New Publication;
NEWTOWN AND LLANLLWCHAIARN
CENOTAPH
Readers' letters
Sir Pryce Pryce-Jones accused of
dodgy dealing
David Pugh
Who are they?
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VOLUME 46 AUTUMN 2011 |
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CONTENTS
A family business
The Phillips family of Newtown
David Pugh
Reminiscences
Ottoline Jones
Sundays as I remember them
Max Owen
New publication
Life Divine
Rob and Phil Edwards
Readers' letter
The three legged stool that bestrode the world
From cowshed to Control Techniques
David Pugh
Who are they?
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VOLUME 45 SUMMER 2011 |
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CONTENTS
A big ladle
Gina Rademan
Newtown History Fun Day
Mary Oldham
A new bus
Brian Poole
Something a little different
Eveline Lewis
The great cake riot of 1902
Readers' letter
My first days in Penygloddfa Infants' School
David Jarman
A stroll down memory lane
Jean Lumsden
A royal puzzle
Newtown floods: December 1960
Gwen Stimpson
Who are they?
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VOLUME 44 SPRING 2011 |
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CONTENTS
A Pryce Jones mail order catalogue comes home
Mary Oldham
The end of mail order
at the Royal Welsh Warehouse
David Pugh
Bring on the dancing girls!
David Wilson
Cilgwrgan Bridge
David Pugh
Reader's letter
Memories of the past
A.E Hughes
Just as I remember it
Glenys Hopkins
Online pictures of Newtown
In-house magazines
Who are they?
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VOLUME 43 WINTER 2010 |
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CONTENTS
Opportunity Knocks twice for Ken
David Pugh
Thomas Hughes Jones
Newtown Volunteer Fire Brigade
David Pugh
New Publication
(Double Death by Pryce Lewis)
A New Doomsday Book for Newtown
Mary Oldham
A Vanished Industry
Brian Poole
(Milking on local farms)
Our oldest local history library reopened
Who are they?
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VOLUME 42 AUTUMN 2010 |
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CONTENTS
When Newtown nearly died
David Pugh
Newtown's first carnival
The retailing of the little grey Fergie
Brian Poole
Readers' letters
Soldiers in Newtown
Maurice Glyn Jones
The Kymric Mill
Gina Rademan
Who are they? |
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VOLUME 41 SUMMER 2010 |
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CONTENTS
When no men turned up:
The story of Hafren Ladies Choir
Rhian Davies
Milk-O!
The Olivers at war
Ross Jones
New Publication
Hamers and Hughes Families
Joy Hamer
Remember the floods?
Newtown's turnpike roads
David Pugh
Who are They? |
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VOLUME 40 SPRING 2010 |
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CONTENTS
Memories of the Boys' Grammar School
Bill Hopkins
The Bear Hotel
Gina Rademan
Canal relics uncovered
Dysart Terrace
Monica Woosnam
Ten years of the Newtonian
David Pugh
Reader's letter
New publication
Montgomery's buses;
An empire of Independents
Brian Poole
Conserving our past
David Pugh
More on the secret factory
Brian Poole
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 39 WINTER 2009 |
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CONTENTS
Hafren Road Club, 1947 - 1956
John Bennett
Walking to School
Gina Rademan
Remember Newtown's unique dialect
Noel Egerton
The Changing Face of Newtown:
The Crescent Chapel reopens
The History of Milford Hall
Sally Rackham
Reader's Letter
A Lad Porter reflects
Robert Lindsey Evans
Who Are They?
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VOLUME 38 AUTUMN 2009 |
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CONTENTS
Roman road revealed
David Pugh
The changing face of Newtown
730 years of street market trading
Gina Rademan
Newtown Bowling Club
the fortieth anniversary of their clubhouse
Trefor Davies
Readers' letters
Jottings
Max Owen
The Cenotaph project
The Little Theatre
David Pugh
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 37 SUMMER 2009 |
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CONTENTS
The bells of St David's Church
Colin Potter
A Quiz
Max Owen
My first job
John Bennett
The Richard Christmas photographs
Readers' letters
The DBRW housing estates
Trefor Davies
The Gasworks
Gina Rademan
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 36 SPRING 2009 |
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CONTENTS
The lion that came from the shadow
on his bicycle
Brian Poole
Memories from the corner of my mind
Jean Lumsden
Early Newtown photographers
David Pugh
A paper boy in 1945
Maurice Glyn Jones
Readers' letters
New publications
No more Pick and Mix
David Pugh
Pryce Lewis
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 35 WINTER 2008 |
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CONTENTS
Plas Cae Crwn, Newtown's first care home
Gina Rademan
My time as a boxer
Les Bridge
The Pryce Monuments in St David's Church
Edward Parry
Readers' letters
Planning update
New publications
Newtown in 1901
Robert Owen of Newtown
DVD
Heyday In The Blood
Geraint Goodwin
George Hibbott, a brave bandsman
David Pugh
Who are they? |
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VOLUME 34 AUTUMN 2008 |
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CONTENTS
From churches to theatre
Gina Rademan
A recent glimpse of local history
Newtown in 1901
Joy Hamer
St. David's Church
update
Newtown and the Bicycle
Brian Poole
Remembering the Armoury
David Wilson
Reader's letter
New Publications
The Venetian Dance Band
Bernard Hodgson
A Canal Walk
The Park
Remembering Robert Owen
David Pugh
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 33 SUMMER 2008 |
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CONTENTS
Geraint Goodwin:
A forgotten novelist
Mary Oldham
Penstrowed Quarry
Brian Poole
Reader's letter
The Park update
Disappearing Newtown
David Pugh
New Publications
The Man who saved Vancouver
Daphne Sleigh
The Deadly Tablet
David Burkhill-Howarth
The Cemetery
Gina Rademan
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 32 SPRING 2008 |
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CONTENTS
The Royal Train passes through Newtown
Brian Poole
A Newtown Stationmistress
The Cedewain Lodge of Freemasons
Gina Rademan
Newtown to the Middle East
Bernard Jones
Reader's letters
New publication
'Things of beauty'
What two sisters did for Wales
Edited by Oliver Fairclough
Dance band days (and nights!)
David Wilson
Remembrance Day
Ottoline Jones
A bypass for Newtown
David Pugh
More photographs by Stan Potter
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 31 WINTER 2007 |
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CONTENTS
The Eagles Vaults and Brewery
Gina Rademan
A Nonconformists Seminary at Newtown
Stephen W Jones
A Boyhood in Stone Street
Royston Jarman
New Publication
The Life of Robert Owen
DVD
A Year in the Park
DVD
Reader's letters
The Dandy Fifth
David Pugh
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 30 AUTUMN 2007 |
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CONTENTS
Some Memories of the "County"
Wynn Morris
Old Memories of Market Street
Arnold Horton
The Story of Milford Road
Gina Rademan
Vivien Cutting
Mary Oldham
Readers' letters
Newtown High School 1957 - 2007
Joy Hamer
How the Park Became Public Property
David Pugh
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 29 SUMMER 2007 |
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CONTENTS
How two men's dream came true
David Pugh
Newtown Laundry
Maurice Glyn Jones
The changing face of Newtown
David Pugh
Newtown's forgotten all-rounder
David Wilson
Readers' letters
New publication
A Boyhood's Recall, 1937-1945:
Maesmawr Hall Caersws, Montgomeryshire
Michael Ellis-Jones
The job; The retirement of PS Morgan
Who are they? |
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VOLUME 28 SPRING 2007 |
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CONTENTS
H. Nixon Oliver
1926 - 2007
Top of the Form Remembered
Elisabeth Williams
Newly Available Book
A History of Newtown
Maurice Richards
Something New in Market Street
David Pugh
The Polish Press in Newtown
David Pugh
Readers'Letters
London House
Gina Rademan
Our collection of photographs
School Days
Marjorie Lewis
Who are they? | | |
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VOLUME 27 WINTER 2006 |
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CONTENTS
Newtown boy made good in New Zealand
Peter Williams
The Board School tablet
Heulwen Davies
The big day out
Derrick Llewelyn
Penygloddfa shopping in the 1930s
Edward Owen
October Fair Day : boyhood memories
Max Owen
Readers' letters
New publications
All-Round Genius:
The Unknown Story of Britain's Greatest Sportsman
Mick Collins
Pocket Images: Newtown
Newtown Local History Group
The changing face of Newtown?
Jones, Evans & Co
David Pugh
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 26 AUTUMN 2006 |
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CONTENTS
Is the Montgomeryshire Canal
coming back to Newtown?
David Pugh
The Big Day Out
The story of a house
Gina Rademan
Caersws, the railway village
Brian Poole
Newtown Local History Group
Cenotaph project
Gina Rademan
Autograph book verses
Heulwen Davies
Readers' letters
What's to become of the Smithfield?
David Pugh
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 25 SUMMER 2006 |
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CONTENTS
The Story of Cranford House
Gina Rademan
Farming Years Ago
Stan Wilson
Remembering the Fallen
How Will We Remember Them?
Disappearing Newtown
My Memories of New Road
Heulwen Davies
Who Are They? |
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VOLUME 24 SPRING 2006 |
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CONTENTS
A Long Time Ago
Gordon Howells
The Great Chapel Building Contest
David Pugh
Pool Road Schooldays in the 1940s
Maurice Glyn Jones
Scholars onSevern Green
Reader's Letter
New Publication
Llanbrynmair in the Twentieth Century
Looking Back
Les Stott
The Gasworks and Other Delightfully Perfumed Places
Gina Rademan
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 23 WINTER 2005 |
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CONTENTS
A Newtown Eccentric
Gina Rademan
Looking After Newtown After Work
Idris Owen
The Old Street Names of Newtown
David Pugh
A Newtonian in Patagonia
Readers' Letters
Michaelmas Fair, 28th October 1930
Stan Wilson
New Publication
With Madog to the New World
J. Malcolm Pryce
More Wartime Memories of Newtown
Wynn Morris
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 22 AUTUMN 2005 |
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CONTENTS
The Second World War in Newtown
David Pugh
Childhood Wartime Memories
Malcolm Pryce
The Day War Broke Out
Farming During the War Years
Stan Wilson
Reader's Letter
My Childhood at Penygloddfa and
Happy Memories of Working on the
Great Western Railway
Eileen Collins
My Emrys Has Gone Home
Ken Davies
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 21 SUMMER 2005 |
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CONTENTS
Digging Around
Gina Rademan
Help Wanted!
Disastrous Fire at Newtown
Musical Memories
Robert Meddins
Readers' Letters
The Market Hall
David Pugh
More Help Wanted!
Newtown Win Welsh Senior Cup
Joy Hamer
Football Follow-Up
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 20 SPRING 2005 |
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CONTENTS
The First Men to Fly in Newtown
David Pugh
What's Happened to Our Black Popular
David Pugh
Newtown's Triple Triump
David Pugh
Years Ago
Austin L Evans
The Williams Collection
Readers' Letters
Photographs
Newtown Greasy Band
"Maes y Gwasted"
New Publication
The Mawddwy, Van & Kerry Branches
Cozens, Kidner and Poole
The Perils of Picking Blackberries
Robert Morris
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 19 WINTER 2004 |
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CONTENTS
Some Memories of Frolic Street
Wynn Morris
The Little Theatricals
David Pugh
Education, Education, Education
Gina Rademan
Readers' Letters
Whiskey, Please, Landlord
Alan Williams
Newtown's Post Offices
David Pugh
New Publications
A History of Crescent Chapel
David Peate
Directories of Newtown
Elwyn V. Jones
Mishaps on the Cambrian Railways
and the Great Western Railways
(Cambrian Railways)
Elwyn V Jones
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 18 AUTUMN 2004 |
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CONTENTS
The Old Education Offices
Les Stott
The Battle for Severn Green
David Pugh
The Stationmaster's Hat
David Pugh
Readers' Letters
Bert Davie: An All Round Motorist
Trefor Davies
The Other Bus
Les Bridge
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 17 SUMMER 2004 |
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CONTENTS
Life in the square
Gina Radema
From cow to customer
Secondary Education in Newtown
David Pugh
Readers' Letters
An unusual gift to the town
New Publication
The Utopian Prince
Robert Owen and the Search for Millenium
by Floyd H Duncan
Newtown and District
Table Tennis League
Alan Oldham
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 16 SPRING 2004 |
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CONTENTS
Garden Terrace to Garth Owen
Joe Gibson
Newtown Textile Museum re-opens
A Montgomeryshire policeman
C I E Jones
The rag and bone men
Doreen Marsden
Mid Wales Motorways ; the early years
Brian Poole
The Vanner family of Crescent Street
Nixon Oliver
Readers' letters
It's that man again!
New publication
The Montgomeryshire Canal
and its Restoration
Harry Arnold
Newtown's top pop group
David Pugh
Who are they? | |
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VOLUME 15 WINTER 2003 |
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CONTENTS
Impressions of Newtown
John Randall
Working Men
How the Pavillion came to Newtown
David Pugh
Memories of Wales
Margaret M. Thomas
Readers' Letters
New Publications
Transportation By Montgomeryshire Courts
1788 - 1868
Brian Owen
A Dragon in Agincourt
Malcolm Pryce
Electricity in Newtown
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 14 AUTUMN 2003 |
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CONTENTS
Looking after Newtown
Idris Owen
The local girl who became Mayor
Doreen Owen
New publications
A History of the Goodwin Family
Dr James Whetter
A Dragon to Agincourt
Malcolm Pryce
Newtonian quiz
Readers' letters
A tragic occurrence in Canal Road
Volume 13 quiz answers
Who Are They? | |
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VOLUME 13 SUMMER 2003 |
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CONTENTS
The Halfpenny Footbridge
H Nixon Oliver
An alarming accident
A station in my life
Freda Sanders
Baxter the Bryn
David Pugh
When was that?
Reminiscences of a young curate
Leonard Parry Jones
The Newtonian Quiz
Readers' Letters
100 years ago : early 1903
New publication:
1891 Census of Montgomeryshire
Max Woosnam 1892 - 1965;
Britain's greatest sportsman
Joy Hamer
Volume 12 quiz answers | |
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VOLUME 12 SPRING 2003 |
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CONTENTS
The Gro Bridge
H Nixon Oliver
More About Newtown
Richard Churchill
A Mystery Solved?
The Briscos of Newtown Hall
David Pugh
The Newtonian Quiz
Readers' letters
Broadcasting Comes To Newtown
David Pugh
New publications
Llandinam; A Glimpse of the Past
Jeremy Price
A Collection of Dolfor Memories
Dolfor Millenium Committee
Who Are They?
Volume 11 quiz answers | | |
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VOLUME 11 WINTER 2002 |
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CONTENTS
I was a retained fireman
Elwyn V Jones
Newtown Home Guard
Idris Owen
The Long and Short Bridges
Nixon Oliver
Newtown 100 years ago
What's the time, Sarah?
David Pugh
Readers' letters
The Newtonian quiz
New publications
A Sunnyside Childhood
Doreen Marsden
Newtown
A Journey Through Time
A video by Video Dessign
The tank and guns:
a problematic gift
David Pugh
Volume 10 quiz answers | |
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VOLUME 10 AUTUMN 2002 |
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CONTENTS
The Abermule and Kerry Blanch line
Brian Poole
The HSBC (Midland Bank) in Newtown
David Pugh
Old cobbles come to light
Wartime memories of Newtown during the war
with 23rd Field Training Regiment,
The Royal Artillery
J L Jennings
The 1887 Jubilee
David Pugh
The Newtonian Quiz
A Newtown Girl
Rene Gentle
New Publication
Mishaps on the Cambrian Railways
Elwyn V Jones
Volume 9 quiz answers | |
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VOLUME 9 SUMMER 2002 |
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CONTENTS
The Sheep Dip
Nixon Oliver
More Childhood Memories
George Davies
Bowen, Boots and All
Peter Garbett-Edwards
Newtown 100 Years Ago
Newtown Carnival
David Pugh
Newtown Carnival (and other) Queens
Some of the Queens of Newtown
The Newtonian Quiz
Readers' Letters
Up In The Roff
David Pugh
New Publication
Chronological History of Newtown
(including some from other places)
1265 - 1980
Elwyn V Jones
Anyone for Tennis?
Les Stott
Volume 8 Quiz Answers | |
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VOLUME 8 SPRING 2002 |
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CONTENTS
Newtown Textile Museum
Eva Bredsdorff
Worrall on the Wall of Death
David Pugh
Through the mists, brightly
Richard Churchill
The Newtown Co-operative Society
and its Branches
The Dinky Blues
Blaze Away
Readers' Letters
Old Publication
History of Newtown
B Bennett Rowlands
The Newtonian Quiz
Volume 7 Quiz answers | |
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VOLUME 7 WINTER 2001 |
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CONTENTS
The Byander and lands in Llanllwchaiarn
H Nixon Oliver
The Prisoner of War Camp on Dolfor Road
Jack Williams
The Suffragette campaign in Newtown in 1910
David Pugh
William Cooke
Eileen Collins
Lions Loose in Milford Road
David Pugh
The Newtonian quiz
Readers' letters
Skating on the Severn
New publication
Once Below a Time
Desley Moore
Purchase or cease
Allan Roberts
Volume 6 quiz answers | |
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VOLUME 6 AUTUMN 2001 |
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CONTENTS
Childhood and growing up in Newtown
George Davies
Reminiscences; Newtown Silver Band
David Wilson
The Montgomeryshire County Infirmary
H Nixon Oliver & David Pugh
Dolerw Hall
H Nixon Oliver
The Newtonian Quiz
Readers' letters
An American Mystery
David Pugh
New publication
Llanllwchaiarn - Church and Parish
H N Oliver
Badminton in the County Pavillion
Volume 5 quiz answers | |
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VOLUME 5 SUMMER 2001 |
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CONTENTS
Boyhood days around Coedyffridd
and Barnfields
Les Stott
Cwrt Plas yn Dre
David Pugh
Pryce Jones: pioneer of mail order
and parcel post
E V Jones
Newtown Fair 1894
"Rambler"
Billheads
David Pugh
A voice from the past
George Davies
The Newtonian Quiz
Readers' letters
New publications
Norton's Ride to Llynclys
David Pugh
The Royal Welsh Warehouse
Sports 1901
Allan Roberts
Volume 4 quiz answers | |
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VOLUME 4 SPRING 2001 |
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CONTENTS
The Newtonian
Wartime in Milford Road
Joan Cooper
Garth Owen
David Pugh
More Newtown dialect
Noel Egerton
Down Forget-Me-Not-Lane:
George Black and the Regent Cinema
1937 - 1968
Mary Oldham
Penygloddfa schooldays
Mary Comer
The Newtonian quiz
Readers' letters
Two snippets of postal history
H N Oliver
More postal confusion
David Pugh
New publications
A History of Newtown
Maurice Richards
Montgomeryshire regiments of militia
Volunteers and Cavalrymen
Bryn Owen
The Egerton Cup
How the cup was made
Noel Egerton
Volume 3 quiz answers | |
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VOLUME 3 WINTER 2000 |
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CONTENTS
The Newtonian
The new Argos store
Syra, Lady Pryce-Jones
The wartime evacuation to Newtown
The evacuees tell their own stories
The Newtonian quiz
War Memorial gets rededicated
Readers' Letters
New publications
A Montgomeryshire Youth
A D W Owen
A Welcome in the Hillsides?
Jill Wallis
Harry R Hamer
Over a century of ladies hockey
in Newtown
Cardiff City autographs | |
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VOLUME 2 AUTUMN 2000 |
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CONTENTS
"Good Old Sarah"
The origins of the Town Clock
Verses, songs and games
A brief history of Frankwell Street
Map of old Frankwell Street
Home thoughts from abroad
My childhood in Frankwell Street
The Newtonian quiz
St Mary's Church restored
Readers' letters
New publications
Video - One Life
Brandy Balla and Sticky Bottoms
Miss Anita Taylor
The Llanwnog Millenium Book
More on dialect words and phrases
Sport - George Latham
Quiz answers
Our contributors | |
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VOLUME 1 SUMMER 2000 |
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CONTENTS
Editorial
New Newtonians No 1; Mary Oldham
Newtownisms
Les Stott
The Corner Shop
Ann Owen
Held! Where do the names come from
Diary
Letters
Quiz corner
The Victoria Hall
June McColley
Sport: Newtown Golf Club
New publications
Wesley Methodist Church
Newtown
The First 200 Years
Glyn Tegai Hughes
Memories
Margaret Bernice Roberts
Quiz answers
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The Newtonian is published by Newtown Local History Group, Rhoswen, Bryn Street, Newtown, Powys, SY16 2HW.
E-mail newtonian@fsmail.net
Printed by Parchment (Oxford) Ltd. Printworks, Crescent Road, Cowley, Oxford, OX4 2PB.
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