Talk:The Gaer House

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I think the final sentence, that The Gaer House is now The Gaer Inn, is incorrect The Gaer was a large house where Lansdowne Road now stands, which served as a Gwent College for Boys, a boarding school, in the 20th century. The Gaer Inn was previously known as Gaer-Fach and was a farmhouse (aerial view at ^[1]). Potentially there could have been two buildings called The Gaer and The Gaer House, but I think the evidence is that this article does not refer to the building that is now The Gaer Inn.

The map at ^[2] shows Gaer-Fach, which is where The Gaer Inn is now, and also shows a large house where Lansdowne Road is now, with its drive opposite Cae Brynton Road.

The school is documented at ^[3], with pictures at ^[4].

There are lodges still remaining at either end of Gaer Road; they refer to Gaer Fach again but I think again that the lodges are for the house that became the boarding school: ^[5], ^[6]

Further evidence that The Gaer House is not Gaer Fach/The Gaer Inn: the 1901 Directory of Monmouthshire ^[7] shows Charles D. Phillips (as named in this article) at The Gaer, and Henry Duckham at Gaer Fach. There is also an advertisement from 1898 placed by H Duckham of Gaer Fach for a man experienced with stock and horses to work on a grass farm ^[8] (advert near bottom right of final advertisement section).

ACopeland195.147.194.190 (talk) 17:29, 20 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.peoplescollection.wales/items/25940

[2] ttps://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=17&lat=51.57543&lon=-3.01757&layers=168&b=7

[3] ttps://journals.library.wales/view/1337678/1340331/61#?xywh=-1778%2C-236%2C6019%2C3913

[4] ttp://newportpast.com/gallery/photos/php/search.php?search=gwentcollege

[5] ttps://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2153794

[6] ttps://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/687505

[7] ttps://freepages.rootsweb.com/~familyalbum/genealogy/cstreet.htm

[8] ttps://newspapers.library.wales/view/3272936

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