Newport Stories

Newport Stories is a curated selection of wartime reminiscences from Newport residents, collected as a community memory project for the 60th anniversary of VE Day in 2005. The Newport community’s experiences on the home front shaped their lives.
These are their stories.

Child
at War

My Windows
Rattled

Women's
Home Guard

Corpor
Boy

Heinkel
Crash

Eveswell
Bombing

Red Cross
Nurse

Ringside
Seat

Morgan's
Memories

Wartime
Landlady

She was
the Best

Tadpoles
& Wellies