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Upper Bar and The Shakespeare Inn, Newport
Upper Bar showing the Shakespeare Inn and the horse taxi which took passengers between the Railway Station and the Royal Victoria Hotel where ithe taxi was housed. The Shakespeare Inn was built on the site of a house named 'Hoarwithy' which burnt down as a result of a fire at a tan yard at the back of the property. This building was erected for Edwin Humphries as a purpose-built inn. Notice the stabling to the right where the entrance to the car park is now.
1890-1910