Colourful mural, Maesglas, Newport
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Colourful mural, Maesglas, Newport
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 2 Aug 2011
On a wall on Bideford Road, viewed from the corner of Cardiff Road. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/559684 to a view of the far end of the mural. On the right side of the mural are these words "Maesglas was a penniless place everybody called Moscow. When it was built in the thirties the winter was of such Soviet severity that the frost-bound workmen gave it the name. Poor though it was, nobody who ever lived there can today mention its name or its Russian nickname without breaking into a grin." written by Leslie Thomas, Newport-born author of novels such as The Virgin Soldiers, Tropic of Ruislip and Dangerous Davies, The Last Detective.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.570281
Longitude
-3.014277