THE photo is of the top of Stow Hill. On the left of the picture is the entrance to Clifton Road before widening to make a less steep climb for the trams.

The house and high wall in the centre of the photo were demolished to make way for the widening.

Off the picture on the left is the old Newport workhouse and on the left behind the camera is the new workhouse – now part of St Woolos Hospital.

Dave Woolven, Newport

● You were trying to fool us this week describing the Now and Then pictures as ‘A Scene from South Gwent’, true, of course, but it is in fact St Woolos Cathedral.

The Then picture shows no tram lines and the clothing people are wearing suggests the 19th century.

On the right is the tower of the church and on the left the corner shop selling sweets.

In the centre the big house has long gone and in the Now picture it has been replaced by trees and a new gateway.

There are numerous shops on the right and just out of sight is the Church House pub, formerly the Six Bells (but why, when there are 13 bells in the bell tower?). The pub was also known as the Physog and Firkin for a short while.

On the left the corner shop is now a gents’ hairdresser which I attend.

My parents were married in the cathedral in 1932, and I used to attend the Sunday school there.

Brian JJ Jeff, Newport

● The Now and Then picture is of Stow Hill. St Woolos Cathedral is opposite what I remember as The Six Bells pub. There was a small cafe, and grocery stores and a fish and chip shop on the corner.

The street opposite leads down to Baneswell. There used to be a few shops and a restaurant where functions were held. There were also a few houses and a cinema called The Pavilion.

I remember that St Joseph’s Convent used to be opposite St Woolos Hospital near the Handpost pub

M Reardon, Newport