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Stow Hill, NEWPORT, NP20 4SZ

Viewed across from Stow Hill. The buildings are dated 1902. At that time, this was the Newport Workhouse.

On Stow Hill, just west of St Woolos Cathedral. For many decades, until the 1930s, this was one of the most feared locations in Newport. As Woolaston House, it was Newport Workhouse. Workhouses were used for poor relief in the Victorian era (and later) throughout the UK. They were places of dread for the needy poor and elderly, who had no alternatives in the days before the Welfare State. Books such as Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist highlighted conditions in the workhouse. Workhouse life was deliberately made as harsh and degrading as possible so that only the truly destitute would apply. The southern entrance http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1473698 to the hospital, from Friars Road, is at an elevation about 15 metres (50 feet) lower than this entrance.

134 Stow Hill, opposite St Woolos Hospital.

Suppliers of camping and outdoor equipment, at 136-140 Stow Hill, opposite St Woolos Hospital.

The doorway into the hospital is a few metres from the entrance road http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1628503 from Stow Hill. The date in stone above the entrance is 1902. At that time, this was the Newport Workhouse.

A few metres beyond the entrance http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1628503 from Stow Hill, a large sign on a wall shows 20 locations, some to the right, some to the left along the road that descends to lower levels. The hospital occupies a steep roughly triangular site between Stow Hill on the north side, Friars Road to the south and east, and Stow Park Avenue to the west.

The entrance to the unit is alongside the eastern perimeter road. In the left background is the boiler house chimney. http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2243444

The hospital road runs parallel with Stow Hill, separated from it by the perimeter wall, just out of shot on the left.

A row of four houses on Stow Hill located between the turning into Brynhyfryd Avenue on the left, and a service station.

The bus is stopped at the bus stop at the Stow Hill entrance/exit http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1628503 to St Woolos Hospital. In a few seconds it will descend along the eastern edge of the hospital to a stop http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2253526 near the Friars Road entrance/exit. The bus is on Newport Bus route 98 from the central bus station. Coincidentally, this vehicle's Newport Bus fleet number is also 98.