Showing posts with label Monmouthshire. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Monmouthshire. Show all posts

The Victoria

The Victoria, Newport, Monmouthshire

A rather impressive inter-wars pub in a kind of Arts and Crafts style, situated in the Lliswerry district on the eastern side of the city. It is now to be demolished and replaced with a block of fifteen flats.

The Beaufort Arms

The Beaufort Arms, Monkswood, Monmouthshire

A roadside pub on the A472 between Usk and Pontypool, which was CAMRA South & Mid Wales Pub of the Year in 1990.

The Black Horse

The Black Horse, Newport, Monmouthshire

A gabled pub set back from the road on a street corner in the eastern part of the city, just down the road from the King.

The Hereford Arms

The Hereford Arms, Newport, Monmouthshire

An impressive redbrick street-corner pub probably dating from the late Victorian or Edwardian period, once well known as a bikers’ haunt.

The Orange Tree

The Orange Tree, Newport, Monmouthshire

A small pub in Newport’s run-down dockland area of Pill, shown on StreetView as replaced with modern housing.

The Corporation

The Corporation, Newport, Monmouthshire

An impressive street-corner pub on the east side of the River Usk. The StreetView image shows it converted to flats.

The King

The King, Newport, Monmouthshire

An imposing two-bay brick-built pub, possibly late Victorian or Edwardian, formerly known as the King of Prussia, on the eastern side of the Usk.

The Old Castle

The Old Castle, Abersychan, Monmouthshire

A white-painted pub in the backwaters of the South Wales mining valleys. And no, that isn’t smoke rising from the chimney. If you move forward in StreetView you will see that many windows are broken.