A walk created by Aled Singleton and Tin Shed Theatre company over summer 2022. The accounts are about how Newport changed in the 1960s and relate to newpaper cuttings from the South Wales Argus and original social research.

starling

goldfinch

'Bang goes another all-male tradition' - Mabel Johnson elected President of Newport Chamber of Trade

Reflecting on creating a feminised space in Newport from the site of a former snooker. Thinking back to people who moved home to Bettws estate in the 1960s.

A man reflects on his family moving from Union Street (where the houses were demolished in the 1960s) to the new etstae in Bettws.

Drifting Dock Street

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Newport Library Opens April 1968

Mabel Johnson April 1969

St Pauls Walk

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