Peter Brown wrote:

"Within the Kegie Collection are a number of early topographical images of the Wye Valley area taken around 1900. ... we are processing this collection for deposit at Gwent Archives and dissemination through a dedicated website in preparation. www.kegiecollection.org This remarkable collection of family history records belongs to Helen Kegie in Newport - who is 92 - and who has asked us to preserve and share the vast collection. She was brought up in Chepstow/Tutshill area and then Cinderford, where her father Alfred was the chemist in the 1920s and 30s".

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This photo shows Brockweir before the construction of the bridge over the Wye. Prior to the bridge being built, people relied on a ferry to get them across the Wye.

Note the water in the moat on the right.

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