Chepstow Museum

Image: © Eirian Evans Taken: 2 Dec 2011

In an elegant late 18th Century town house, at the bottom of the town near the river. The house, known as Gwy House, was built in 1796 by Warren Jane the Younger, an Apothecary. It was owned for many years in the 19th century by a respected local surgeon, later becoming a Red Cross Hospital for soldiers in the First World War and until recently was the Chepstow & District Hospital. A display in the museum vividly illustrates the changing uses of the building over the years. The museum's exhibits reflect the development of Chepstow, once an important port and bustling market town. The displays show the growth and decline of the port with its valuable wine and timber trades. Shipbuilding and salmon fishing and many other aspects of Chepstow's working life are shown in imaginative settings which recapture an essence of the original scenes. Pleasures and pastimes are recalled in original photographs, programmes and posters.

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