Newport's history society has relaunched a photographic project featuring over 6,000 images - and is appealing for help in solving some mysteries.
Newport History Society began digitising its thousands of collected photographs in 2005. Now, with the help of a local marketing company, the ever-growing collection is available to view on the organisation's website.
The society is now encouraging people to delve into the archives themselves and help identify some of the people and places featured in the photographs.A special category called 'Mystery Items', features around 50 photographs that the society knows little or nothing about. One mystery photo shows an unidentified person in the snow, dressed up as what appears to be an elf, outside a caravan awning.Another shows a group of young children out on a day trip with a playgroup.
She said:"About 20 years ago we had a good sort out of all of our archives, we had lots of photos and didn't know what to do with them. So we got them all digitalised with funding from the lottery.
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