NEWPORT'S historic Westgate Hotel - site of the 1839 massacre - opened its doors at the weekend as part of the commemorations of the 180th anniversary of the uprising.
Take a look inside the historic building, and see how it was decked out for the weekend's celebrations.
All pictures by Mark Lewis.
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This is part of a series of features making the 180th anniversary of the Newport Uprising.
- Newport Rising Festival remembers Chartists' fight for democracy
- What did policing look like in the days of the Newport Uprising?
- School pupils continue the Chartist legacy 180 years on
- The Newport Uprising in the words of the people who saw it happen
- Newport's Chartist landmarks
- From traitors to heroes - how attitudes to the Chartists have changed
- John Frost's Newport was a town on the up
- Political figures pay tribute to 'pivotal moment in our democratic history' as Newport Rising anniversary approaches
- Take a look inside Newport's historic Westgate Hotel
- Remembering Alexander Cordell, the novelist who inspired so many to explore Newport's Chartist history
- The story of the Westgate Hotel and its central role in Chartist Uprising
- From shop windows and scrapyards: The Chartist display in Newport Museum
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