Argus, took a drive around the Caldicot Levels. He wrote about his journey in the
Weekly Argus on April 2, 1921. We re-print it here with comments (in italics) by Peter Strong, secretary of the Gwent County History Association and volunteer with the Living Levels project.
In the land of the reens
Easter exploration of the Welsh Holland
By J Kyrle Fletcher IT WAS at the fifth milestone out of Newport on the high road to Chepstow that we turned sharply to the right towards the land of the reens. The tourists who wrote our famous books on the topography of South Wales travelled on foot or they hired a nag; but – other days, other ways - we set out to explore the unknown regions of the Caldicot Level in a motor-car.
A look back at the unveiling of a plaque for Newport’s Lady Rhondda SUFFRAGETTE, businesswoman, and journalist Lady Rhondda is less well known, but this group of Newport women are doing their best to change this. As well as currently fundraising for a statue to commemorate this firebrand feminist in the city, the campaign truly started way back in 2015. They started a campaign to get a blue plaque for Lady Rhondda and raised their total of £1,104 in just 12 day. On June 12, 2015, it was unveiled next to the Risca Road post-box the activist set on fire in 1913 by dropping two vials of chemicals through the letter box.