ARE you looking for a long-lost friend or tracing distant family members?

Maybe you've got an historical question about Gwent. You can use the Memory lane section to ask other readers to help you in your quest. To post a request, click the green 'Send your news' button at the top of the page. Read requests already sent in below.

Royal Navy field gunners, get in touch

7:10pm Thursday 29th December 2011

A FORMER member of the Royal Navy’s Devonport Field Gun Crew is appealing for fellow field gunners to get in touch.

Does historic Lysaght picture bring back memories?

OLD PHOTOGRAPH: Mrs G Lysaght plants a tree outside the Lysaghts Institute back in the early 1970s watched by factory employees

10:10am Sunday 11th December 2011

A DEVELOPER is looking for descendants of the Lysaght family and former employees at The Orb Works Newport to help shed light on an old photograph.

Organised trips back to Suez Canal Zone

10:18am Thursday 3rd November 2011

I ORGANISE return visits back to the Egyptian Canal Zone where I also served in the 1950s along with thousands of other service personnel.

Appeal from down under for Abergavenny cousin

12:07pm Wednesday 26th October 2011

AN AUSTRALIAN man is appealing for help in finding his Welsh cousin.

Search on for families of lost Gwent airmen

THE EVE OF THE FATAL MISSION: Sergeant Eyre is third right. The man on the far right might be fellow Welshman Weaver

3:30pm Tuesday 18th October 2011

With killing efficiency the German fighter’s guns picked out the British bomber. Now the search is on for two Welsh airmen whose only grave is the North Sea. MIKE BUCKINGHAM reports

Why was Newport's Great Western Wharf so called?

2:40pm Tuesday 23rd August 2011

I AM writing a book entitled "Coasters of South Wales" which will be a pictorial review of some of the small ships which have visited ports in South Wales during the last forty years.

Looking for Australian great-grandfather

3:55pm Monday 25th July 2011

I AM trying to find information about my great-grandfather, William James Roberts, born in Australia in 1880.

Haunting tale of Caerphilly TB picture

CHERISHED PICTURE: Do you know anyone on this old photograph, taken in 1944/5 at Energlyn Hospital, Caerphilly

7:30am Friday 15th July 2011

THERE is a haunting quality about the picture taken at Energlyn Hospital in Caerphilly in 1944 or 1945.

Looking for ex-Llanwern steelworker Ron Davies

3:20pm Wednesday 6th July 2011

MY NEPHEW, Glyn Thomas, who lives in Australia, has asked me to try to trace an old pal of his.

Libeneth Road

4:58pm Friday 24th June 2011

Does anyone know where the name or word 'Libeneth' comes from and what it means?

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