Currently we meet at the clubrooms Monday afternoons, some Tuesday evenings and every Friday evening, and we continue to meet on-line on the first and third Tuesdays of the month. Easy parking is available, as are tea, coffee and biscuits. If you are going to call in it’s best to contact us first.
The Shaftesbury Community Centre in Evans Street, Newport, NP20 5LD is a short walk from Newport Railway and Bus Stations.
If you’re coming to the Club by train or foot, here are two ways to get there from the railway station:
Route 1 – city centre
Leave the station at the southern side (city centre), turn left into Queensway. Just before you get to the old station building (now the Information Station) cross the road, turn left and immediately right into the old Station Approach.
At this point you will be favoured with a view of a 25′ long low-relief brick sculpture of Newport Castle (the GWR 4-6-0, not the Norman fortification). Continue eastward in High Street towards the Old Castle roundabout. Take the pedestrian walkway under the roundabout. Here you will see a mosaic mural depicting scenes form the Monmouthshire Railway. Turn left, northwards, passing Newport Castle (the Norman fortification, not the GWR 4-6-0) and then under the South Wales Railway mainline.
Continue northwards over the footbridge for about 400 yards alongside the B4591 (see the map) and just before you reach Vanilla Spice (a large stone-built Indian Restaurant) turn 90 degrees right into Evans Street. The Shaftesbury Community Centre is about 100 yards further on the left.
Route 2 – new footbridge.
In 2023, a whizzy new footbridge was opened at Newport railway station. This forms part of the quickest pedestrian route from the railway station to the clubrooms.
On leaving the main station building entrance turn left and cross the footbridge over the railway. Turn right onto Devon Place and on leaving the bridge continue eastward, walking parallel with the railway along Mill Street. At the end of Mill Street, pick your way through the forest of concrete bollards onto another footbridge and pass above Shaftesbury Street.
Continue to the end of the footbridge and then northward alongside Shaftesbury Street / the B4591 (see the map) and just before you reach Vanilla Spice (a large stone-built Indian Restaurant) turn 90 degrees right into Evans Street. The Shaftesbury Community Centre is about 100 yards further on the left.
