This is Argus Office in top of High Street for decades.

Central for most people then and surrounded by their vans outside. Always busy there as the printing was done there - and the Football Argus!

At the back you could see the printing rollers in use and it certainly added to the street scene. At the High Street front, people popped in to pace adverts, give news or purchase pictures which had appeared, Being next to the Arcade and opposite the TA Hotel. it was close to the Railway Station for deliveries nationwide.

Jim Dyer, Newport

This is the old South Wales Argus offices and printing works at 14 & 15 High Street. The photographer would have been standing with his back to the Murenger House and The Tredegar Arms Hotel.

To the left of the Argus was the Carpenters Arms and Carpenters Arms Lane leading to Market Street. To the right of the Argus was the Fifty Shilling Tailors and Montague Burton Tailors.

In Market Street was the Argus printing works, on hot days the big steel sliding doors would be open enough for the heads of small boys to poke through, fascinated by the noise of the spinning machines.

On the opposite corner of Market Street and High Street was the Newport Corporation Electricity Department showrooms, later these became the South Wales Electricity showrooms.

These showrooms were art deco and opened in the mid 1930's - the bronze plaque with the date is still over the door. Further down was the Great Universal Stores now the frontage to the market.

Dave Woolven, Newport

The Now and then picture shows the South Wales Argus offices. The picture triggered my memory of a walking race of about 60 years ago that used to start from the offices and then go to Pontypool (and back if you were energetic). I wonder if anyone else remembers the race?

Mrs Hathaway, Newport

I recognise the Now and Then picture as the South Wales Argus office in High Street. My first job in 1947 was at WE Evans, the shoe shop next door.

They were a family run company with five shops in the town. People used to gather at the offices for special or sad occasions as bulletins were pasted in the window. Election results were passed on this way, and large crowds used to gather.

I vividly remember the crowds following the sad occasion of the 1950 Llandow air crash. Wales had won the Triple Crown in Ireland, and a privately hired plane which was bringing fans home, crashed, with 80 fatalities. The Argus was the hub – for happiness and sadness.

The buildings were striking and I remember the structure work of the Market Arcade. My company held their staff dances at the Westgate Hotel where Harry Polloway was the toastmaster.

Jean Evans, Caerleon

The Now and Then picture is the South Wales Argus office, at the back was Market Street. I remember a betting shop in the area owned by Eddie Lyons. There used to be a bridge to go across to the station and the Kings Head Hotel was nearby as was the road known as Station Approach. Also in the area was Yates wine bar and social services offices.

M Reardon, Newport

No prizes for guessing that the Now and Then picture is the old South Wales Argus office at the top end of High Street, bringing back good memories of Newport. Myself, Vivian Fisher and Brian Richards worked for two hours a night and Saturday for 7s 6d delivering the Argus to vendors all over town.

Our first job was to take a hand cart full of papers over to the station and put them on a train to the valleys. In those days there were two papers a day, an early and a late edition, a weekly and a Football edition and all over town you could hear the vendors shouting ‘Argus’. Alas, just like Oliver Twist we asked for more (a 6d rise) – so they sacked us!

Arthur Nicolaas, Newport