LAST week we featured a picture of the Cross Hands Hotel on Chepstow Road in Newport.

HERE we have the junction of Chepstow Road with Somerton Road on the right.

The Cross Hands is still there and large houses on left are pretty much the same.

Quite a busy little shopping area with lots of activity for supplies.

Jim Dyer, Newport THIS is the junction of Chepstow Road and Somerton Road with the Cross Hands pub on the corner.

Behind the photographer’s left shoulder was Eveswell Junior School, since replaced with a modern building.

Somerton Road used to lead down to the Nash Levels before Lliswerry and and Llanwern steel works were developed.

The Cross Hands dates from late Victorian times.

Somerton Road used to lead down over an old railway bridge but this has recently been removed to make way for a new bridge, part of the electrification of the London - South Wales main line.

I used the Cross Hands junction for over 30 years while working at Uskmouth Power Station, I was always very wary of Somerton Bridge as it was blind, on the top of a hump and on a twist.

Dave Woolven, Newport

THE picture shows Chepstow Road with the Cross Hands Public house on the right and the turning on the right is Somerton Road.

Which later led to Newport County’s Football ground.

Jeff Bradbury, Cwmbran

LAST week’s Museum Piece: THIS is Newport’s Corn Exchange on the corner of Thomas Street and High Street, the Railway Inn was at the back of the Corn Exchange.

The photo dates from the early 1900’s with a horse-drawn tram and all other traffic being horse drawn.

Dave Woolven, Newport