IN the last of our features on Newport Show we look at some of the setbacks experienced by organisers. These include a waterlogged showground turning the main ring area and trade pitches into a lake in 1988 and heavy gales causing chaos in 1983. However, the show went on in the grounds of Tredegar House with plenty of fun had by all as The South Wales Argus archive photographs show
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