Historical information
The Melbourne Road level crossing is now the location of the pedestrian underpass. Hall Street is seen to the right and the two-storey brick building remains to present day
One of several photos at Newport taken the same day in the early 1950s when George Coop was a secondary school student.
This photo is a 35mm copy (1962) of an original print of the c.1951 negative - possibly to use up the last frame after photographing several other early VR prints.
Physical description
Digital TIFF file
Scan of 35mm Ilford FP3 black and white transparency
