The Windsor Castle, Newport

Up to the 1990s the works of the Newport poet William Henry Davies could be borrowed and read within the Windsor Castle and before refurbishment in the 1990s the poets famous couplet from his work ‘Leisure’ could be seen on the wall ‘What is this life if, full of care, W have no time to stand and stare’

The licensee in 1870 was a Joseph Soars and a decade later it was Tomas Wilkins who was fined £1.00 on October 1880for watering down the whisky!  In 1933 the Windsor was owned by the Bristol Brewery and George  & C Ltd.  In 1937 it became Hancocks house.