IN the Then picture, the building on the right shows Lloyds bank and the Tredegar Arms Hotel, the various shops in the background are on High Street.

In the Now picture the building on the right is still what used to be Lloyds Bank and the Tredegar Arms but the building is being refurbished. In the Now picture the redbrick building centre left is the former railway station, now occupied by Newport council offices and named the ‘information station’ The building centre left in the Then picture was a hotel, demolished before I was born, there is a multi storey car park there now.

Brian J J Jelf, Newport

THE Now picture in today’s Argus shows what used to be the main railway station building, but which is now the City’s Information Station. The main railway station buildings are now out of shot to the left of the photo. To the right of the picture, undergoing redevelopment, is the old Yates’s Wine Bar which I believe is to be a Premier Inn.

The Then picture is taken from a different angle and position from the more recent picture. The building to the right is the same. It was at one time the Tredegar Arms as well as at some point housing the rear of a cinema which was in High Street.

However, the Then photo is taken from further around into Station Approach, and shows the Savoy Hotel which fronted also onto High Street. Next to the Savoy was the Post Office. When it was decided to extend the Post Office the Savoy was demolished.

When I was in Newport High School in the early sixties I walked down Mill Street from Queen’s Hill, crossed the footbridge over the railway line walked past the Post Office, down the Market Arcade past the market to the Dock Street Bus Station. One old penny got me home to the Handpost on either the 4 or 4A.

Martin James, Newport

THIS is a shot taken in Cambrian Road at Station Approach junction. The pic shows the curved block which includes the back entrance to the TA Hotel and Restaurant.

The Tredegar Arms Hotel had entrances to both roads with accommodation and a restaurant above. There was also a bar at the Cambrian Road side called Bridie’s Bar after the ginger-haired, Irish barmaid there. Kaisers Clothes and Lloyds Bank were also there.

All busy with the nearby Train Station. To the left is the long-gone Savoy Hotel with High Street visible in the middle of the shot.

Jim Dyer, Newport