Not strictly a genealogy question but someone in Newport might know. In the 19th century (listed in Johns 1880) there was an ironmongers and foundry on Commercial St, WA Baker and Co, that took up the whole block between Commercial St, Corn St, Dock St and Skinner Street - where M&S and the passport office are now. They made iron ranges, baths etc. Apparently this Baker also had a slate works in Maindee, which might well have been the "Newport Enamelled Slate Co. Ltd" listed at 147a Chepstow Road in Kelly 1901. I have been told that this was on the corner of Victoria Ave, where the George Inn is - but the George has been there since at least 1860, when my ggg grandfather had a glass or two of brandy on the day he died! So, my thoughts are that 147a, 5 doors down from the George at 157, might have been the office, and the workshop might have extended back behind the intervening premises to Victoria Ave - on the land now occupied by the former Maindee Baths, which opened in 1938. Does anyone have any knowledge of this slate works, or how long the George has been there - it is possible that it predates the surrounding development which began with the sale of the Fairoak Estate in the 1850s. Thanks Joss